Georgetown Today
This file appears in: The Georgetown Neighborhood: Network to Freedom
The old Georgetown Neighborhood is nationally significant in America as the only known grouping of documented pre-Civil War buildings which were lived in, worked in, built by or owned by free African Americans who were heavily involved in the Underground Railroad.
This file appears in: The Georgetown Neighborhood: Network to Freedom
The Georgetown Neighborhood: Network to Freedom
Proximity to the Ohio River gave rise to Madison's Georgetown Neighborhood, a community of free Blacks dating back to the 1820s. About 50 black families lived in the Georgetown neighborhood, located along Walnut Street north of Main Street.…