The Underground Railroad

In honor of Black History Month, the Bureau of Land Management is taking you on a tour of several safe houses along the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses created to help enslaved African Americans reach freedom in northern states and Canada. Numerous safe houses along the Underground Railroad were built by those who received the title for their land directly from the United States government under various authorities, such as the Land Act of 1820 and the Bounty Land Act of 1855. One of the most notorious Underground Railroad "conductors" was Harriet Tubman. She was able to help nearly 70 enslaved people reach freedom in the North. Read more on ArcGIS Story Maps.

The GLO website provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.
 
The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.

Harriet Tubman