Preserving and amplifying the historical legacy of William & Ellen Craft
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STATE & LOCAL HISTORIC SITES | THE CRAFTS
While William and Ellen Craft have been lauded on the international and national level, just as important they are recognized on the state and local levels as well. Below are select state or local sites (also in order of their journey)
William and Ellen were enslaved in Macon, which was ground zero for their escape.
Sometimes history has to shine a light on darker times, and the marker being in front of the Collins house is one of those times...with Dr. Robert Collins and his wife--Eliza Smith Collins--having enslaved Ellen, who was Eliza's half-sister. The marker was erected by the Macon Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee.
William and Ellen were enslaved in Macon, which was ground zero for their escape.
This was yet another stop on William & Ellen's escape from enslavement, as it was for many others...
A stop in Virginia’s Stafford County on the RF&P Railroad for 30 years until 1872, the Aquia Landing—along the Potomac—was the only direct rail-to-steamboat transfer location between Richmond, VA & Washington, DC. Consequently, it was also the way many enslaved people escaped to freedom, including William & Ellen Craft. Established by Stafford County in 2009, it's also part of the Trail to Freedom & the U.S. National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
This was yet another stop on William & Ellen's escape from enslavement, as it was for many others...
Established in 1989 by local Boston women, The Boston Women’s Heritage Trail includes the story of Ellen Craft as part of their Beacon Hill Tour to the Lewis & Harriet Hayden's House, where the Crafts lived before they left for the U.K. in 1850.
Established in 1989 by local Boston women, The Boston Women’s Heritage Trail includes the story of Ellen Craft as part of their Beacon Hill Tour to the Lewis & Harriet Hayden's House, where the Crafts lived before they left for the U.K. in 1850.
The University of Georgia in Athens, GA has named two study rooms at their Main Library after William and Ellen Craft. Also serving as an homage to their fierce advocacy for education.
The University of Georgia in Athens, GA has named two study rooms at their Main Library after William and Ellen Craft. Also serving as an homage to their fierce advocacy for education.