Freedom Trail: Oswego County Underground Railroad

Coordinator: Judith Wellman wellman@oswego.edu

Designer: J.H. Ford ford@oswego.edu

Researchers:

Joanne Bakeman
Terry Bales
Jay Benton
Helen Breitbeck
Eleanor Cali
Charlene Cole
Hosmer Culkin
Barbara Dix
Elisabeth Dunbar
Kevin Engle
Barbara Bakeman Fero
Nicola Gibson
Kerry Gleason
Janet Harder
Elinore Horning
Barbara Knight
Matthew Marcoccia
Marguerite Matteson
Stephen Nohara
Ellen Nowyj
Melissa Osborne
Janet Osuchowski
John Paeno
Laree Pease
Terry Prior
Mary Ellen Ross
Gary Schreirer
Nancy Searles
Bonnie Shumway
Jason Simone
Rachel Weinreb
Judith Wellman
Tammy Wheeler
Justin White
Eileen Yaeger

Community and College Facilitators:
Frank Church, Oswego County Legislature
Barbara Dix, Oswego County Historian
David King, Chair, History Department, SUNY Oswego
Rosemary Nesbitt and Mercedes Neiss, H. Lee White Marine Museum
Terry Prior, Oswego County Historical Society
George Reed, Fulton Historical Society
Ed Vermue, Coordinator, Special Collections, Penfield Library
Katrina Wilder and Helen Breitbeck, Heritage Foundation of Oswego
George Williams, Oswego County Clerk

Special thanks to the National Park Service (especially to Vivien Rose, Historian at Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, and Richard Waldbauer, Coordinator, Underground Railroad Project for the Northeast) and to Mark Peckham, Field Representative for the New York State Division of Historic Preservation.