Identifying Underground Railroad Sites:

Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Dr. Zak Leonard
🗓 Date: Thursday, April 17th
⏰ Time: 6:30 to 8:00PM
📍 Location: Hopemont | 201 N. Mill Street, Lexington, KY
Co-organized by Lexington's Freedom Train

Join us for the third installment of the Lexington's Freedom Train Lyceum, a program designed to enhance our understanding of the Underground Railroad and its operations in Kentucky and beyond.

Drawing from his extensive survey of Underground Railroad-linked properties in Upstate New York, Dr. Zak Leonard, the Historic Preservation Manager at the Blue Grass Trust, will discuss how these sites have been identified and commemorated. His talk, which focuses on the designation of anti-slavery churches, will incorporate case studies from New York and Kentucky to determine whether a new, transregional methodology is required for the study of these often-vulnerable historic resources. Light refreshments will be provided.