UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?

The Harriet Tubman Society records list Woodburn as a station of the Underground Railroad during the 1840s and 1850s. Allegedly, a tunnel ran from a secret room in the basement and traveled beneath the rear grounds of the property out to the St. Jones River. Here, slaves escaping the south, sneaked into waiting boats, and from the St. Jones River, they were transported north along the Delaware River to Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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