How to resolve AdBlock issue? RENSSELAER – CDTA, manager of the Rensselaer Amtrak Train Station, has teamed up with Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region in order to bring local Underground Railroad history to the public.
Located in the main concourse of the Rensselaer Train Station, a seven foot tall, three sided kiosk contains information and visual images of people, places and events related to this significant chapter in the history of Albany, the Capital Region and New York State.
Based upon the research conducted by Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, historians and co-founders of Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc., Albany and the Capital Region were hotbeds of abolitionist activity prior to the Civil War.
According to Paul Stewart, “Letters, narratives, newspaper articles and broadsides tell us a much more complex and comprehensive story of Underground Railroad activity than we routinely hear about. They provide us with a new interpretation of a very old story. ”
The Rensselaer Amtrak Train Station will host the kiosk through February 2014.
