From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
Mifflin farmstead, an Underground Railroad, Civil War site, prepares to open this spring
An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad ... When the Civil War started in the spring of ...
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The Panic of 1873
Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming ... government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil ...
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Mifflin farmstead, an Underground Railroad, Civil War site, prepares to open this spring
An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site ... who traces her roots in the United States back 200 years, spoke about members of her family who traveled the Underground ...