• The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history novel...
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    (2018–2019). He has since starred in the period drama miniseries The Underground Railroad (2021), and the thriller films Old (2021) and Rebel Ridge (2024)...
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    Maryland to Canada via the Underground Railroad, Roman was born in Port Elgin, Ontario, to parents James Roman and Fannie Lightfoot Roman. He was the oldest of...
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    Line and Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station of Nishi-Nippon Railroad. Extensive underground networks exist around most major stations of the Mass Rapid...
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    was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station...
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    Rail transport (redirect from Railroad)
    management of railroads. The leading American innovators were the Western Railroad of Massachusetts and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1840s,...
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  • evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates. Wheaton...
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    Mary Ellen Pleasant (category Underground Railroad people)
    meeting a different set of needs after Emancipation. She worked on the Underground Railroad and expanded it westward during the California Gold Rush era. She...
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    record members as staunchly abolitionists, having participated in the Underground Railroad as early as 1844. The building is designed in Victorian Gothic motif...
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    which connect it to Egypt. Although the Underground Railroad network used to transport escaped slaves was "underground" mostly in the sense of secrecy, hidden...
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  • cut-and cover railway lines forming part of London Underground South Shore Line, commuter railroad linking Chicago to South Bend, Indiana This disambiguation...
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    Chicago Union Station (category Railway stations located underground in Illinois)
    specially-designed underground taxicab drives were built to protect travelers from the weather. The room's columns are of textured Roman travertine, with...
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  • Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was...
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    John Bowne House (category Houses on the Underground Railroad)
    documented as acting as conductors assisting fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War. The home is a wood-frame Anglo-Dutch...
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    Girard's former estate. Branching from the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad was constructed to Centralia in 1865; it enabled transport...
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    Westworld (2018-2020), Cursed (2020), The North Water (2021), The Underground Railroad (2022), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–2024), After...
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    Jim Caviezel (category 20th-century Roman Catholics)
    in the film Sound of Freedom, about the organization Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) and its mission to save children from sex trafficking and...
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    Lydia Hamilton Smith (category Underground Railroad people)
    house and the adjoining lot. Stevens and Smith were active in the Underground Railroad, which led to the burning of his ironworks, Caledonia Furnace, during...
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    John M. Brown (category Underground Railroad people)
    African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He was a leader in the Underground Railroad. He helped open a number of churches and schools, including the Payne...
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  • Rail Road Company Alaska Railroad Amtrak AN Railway Arizona & California Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad BHP Nevada Railroad BNSF Railway Brightline...
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  • Keeling Coal Company (category Underground mines in the United States)
    Michigan. An underground transportation system connecting the Ormsby mine with other local coal mines was begun in 1867. Like many mine railroads in the Pittsburgh...
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    (IATA airline code: DL) Delaware–Lackawanna Railroad in Pennsylvania, U.S. District line, a London Underground line DL postcode area, Darlington, north-east...
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    Funicular (redirect from Funicular railroad)
    continuous operation since 1875 and is both the first underground funicular and the second-oldest underground railway. It remained powered by a steam engine...
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    Charlton Wallace House (category Houses on the Underground Railroad)
    room in the rear of the basement was employed as a station on the Underground Railroad. In 1877, the parish began to build its present complex of buildings...
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  • Bot Seed Vendor Fred Armisen as Glorp Rob Riggle as Roman Soldier Ayo Edebiri as Underground Railroad Slave Rachel Pegram as Japeth's Wife Jay Ellis as...
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    the railway, the rutway,: 8–19 (8 & 15)  – existed in ancient Greek and Roman times, the most important being the ship trackway Diolkos across the Isthmus...
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    period, and made it a popular stop on the Underground Railroad. In 2004, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was completed along Freedom...
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    vow to destroy slavery here and the city later became part of the Underground Railroad. The Village of Hudson and Hudson Township were formerly two separate...
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    congregation of Quakers in Michigan in 1831. They also created a network of Underground Railroad stations in the Raisin River Valley. Daniel Smith was the first leader...
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    Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist (category Churches on the Underground Railroad)
    buildings had been used prior to the Civil War as a stop on the Underground Railroad, which assisted hundreds of African American slaves to freedom. Stamford...
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