Star Tracks
Cleveland?s DERU Landscape Architecture sees big stories in small spaces.
By Zach Mortice
Photography by Amber N. Ford
A plaza with interpretive signage attracts visitors from the sidewalk.
?Inside the Cozad-Bates House, a handsome, red brick Italianate building on the east side of Cleveland that?s the last pre-Civil War house in the University Circle neighborhood, is a small exhibit that tells the history of Ohio and Cleveland?s role in the Underground Railroad. A map of Ohio created in the late 19th century by the Ohio State University history professor Wilbur Siebert traces the clandestine network, with thin arteries arrayed south to north, reaching across almost all its counties. Seven of these trails converge in Cleveland before crossing Lake Erie into Canada. It gives every impression of the loose town-to-town network of sympathetic families that would open their homes to people escaping enslavement that the railroad was?long on hope, short on actual infrastructure. According to the exhibit, 275 people fleeing slavery passed through Cleveland over eight months in 1854. Siebert?s 1898 book, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, asserts that Cleveland was one of the Underground Railroad?s most important hubs and that the route from Kentucky to Ohio was likely the most traveled. ?Ohio may lay claim to eight terminal stations, all comparatively important,? he wrote.
The position of Ohio between slave-holding Kentucky and freedom in Canada, where slavery had b...
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