Madison's Riverfront / Underground Railroad

Since the City’s founding in 1809, Madison’s riverfront has changed greatly from a bustling commercial and industrial area where factories, mills, hotels, and taverns stood along the banks as part of a busy frontier river port. Annual flooding forced activity to move to higher ground, leaving a restful park area. Madison and Jefferson County also served as a significant conduit in the 19th Century movement in which enslaved African Americans sought freedom in the North with the assistance they received along the way.

Madison, Indiana · United States