Harriet Bell Hayden is believed to have helped hundreds of people fleeing slavery from her Beacon Hill residence ...

"The Evergreens," Stearns' Medford estate, located where our gym now stands, was not only a stop on the Underground Railroad, but it was also what he seriously considered selling to raise funds to ...

Brown had been sent to Kansas by his Boston backers, the "Secret Six," while they raised money to finance his raid on Harpers Ferry ... at stops along the Underground Railroad.

On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ... He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites ...

His father was executed in December 1859 for leading a raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia to expand the Underground Railroad and spark a liberation movement to end American slavery.