Linda Blackford: A public monument to Lewis and Harriet Hayden, their incredible escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad and to all the other enslaved Lexingtonians who found their way north to freedom.
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The National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom accepted Woodland Cemetery, owned and managed by the City of Des Moines, as a site in the Network. It joins 18 new listings from the 42nd round of Network to Freedom applications. This new listing, one of over 695 others al