The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program was established by Congress in 1998. It works to create a network of sites, programs, and facilities with a connection to the Underground Railroad. Sites are not limited to safehouses and include all types of places that played a part in enslaved peoples’ journeys to safety.
Alexandria’s Historic Huntley preserves stories of Bob, Sam Humphreys, and Sandy, three enslaved men who risked everything on their journey to freedom. Fairfax County Park Authority staff documented Historic Huntley’s role as a plantation and the lives of enslaved men like Bob, Humphreys and Sandy, who escaped.
“We can only imagine the courage required to face an abyss of uncertainty and danger when one feels the fire of freedom in their bones,” Nigel Fields, the park authority’s deputy director for planning and development, said in a statement…