The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom has awarded Flushing, Queens’ Bowne House Historical Society a significant grant to research, identify and map Underground Railroad networks and escape routes used by freedom-seekers through the relatively unknown “backwaters” of Civil War-era Queens and Long Island.
Mapping the Underground Railroad at the Bowne House: Flushing & Beyond aims to document the museum’s ties to various Underground Railroad networks, the broader Abolition Movement, and other now vanished Black history sites throughout Queens and Long Island.