An effort is underway to designate the Chicago Detroit Freedom Trail as a National Historic Trail, a designation administered by the National Park Service that would bring with it guide books, route markings and recognition.
Other sites have enough historical ties to the Underground Railroad to qualify, McClellan said, but still need some more in-depth research before they’ll satisfy federal requirements., which McClellan called an “essential congregation in assisting freedom seekers in the late 1840s all the way to the Civil War.”
“Those two places absolutely should be on the network to freedom and deserve this kind of deep research.” A new Underground Railroad park just unveiled at Main and State streets in Glenwood wouldn’t make the cut, he said. The story goes that freedom seekers came into town on the train line adjacent to the new park, and were able to hide at an inn called the Wayside Chalet.That’s more historical tradition than evidence-backed fact, McClellan said, despite declarative language to that effect on the new monument.
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