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In 1862, slave catchers paraded a captured LeRoy Lee in manacles down Front Street toward the ferry, but a crowd of New Richmond citizens confronted the armed captors and demanded Lee’s release. Greatly outnumbered, the slave catchers relented, and two weeks later Lee enlisted in the Union army. The New Richmond Waterfront is recognized by the National Park Service as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Site.
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New Richmond, Ohio · United States
