Twice per year, the Network to Freedom reviews applications for new listings. As a part of that review, the Network to Freedom Team provides members of the public with an opportunity to provide input on potential new listings.
Below, you will find the names of sites, facilities, and programs which have been nominated to the Network to Freedom. The Network to Freedom Team welcomes feedback on potential new listings, and public input will be heard by the application review committee. To provide feedback, please email us at network_to_freedom@nps.gov.
The following candidates will be considered for inclusion in the Network to Freedom in the forty fifth round of applications. The committee will review the applications on March 13th in person.
Sites:
California
Georgia
Illinois
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Virginia
Programs:
Maryland
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Facilities:
New York
44th Round (Summer, 2022)
Entities submitted these applications by the July 15, 2022 deadline. The nominations listed below are organized alphabetically by state. Not all sites, programs, or facilities nominated to the Network to Freedom will be accepted into the program.
For the 44th application review, the following sites, programs, and facilities have been nominated for entry into the Network to Freedom:
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Jacob Heald Farm Site [Site, Delaware]
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Five Ways to Freedom [Program, Delaware]
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Old State Capital [Site, Illinois]
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Lyles Station Museum Exhibit [Program, Indiana]
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Ben Ross Cabin Site [Site, Maryland]
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Sandy Point [Site, Maryland]
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Havre de Grace Maritime Museum [Program, Maryland]
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Horn Island [Site, Mississippi]
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Ship Island [Site, Mississippi]
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Dorrington House and Barn Site [Site, Nebraska]
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Ona Judge Staines Burial Site [Resubmission, Site, New Hampshire]
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John Brown Farm and Gravesite [Site, New York]
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Rev. Beriah Green Gravesite [Site, New York]
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Rev Alexander Heritage Newton Burial Site at Mount Peace Cemetery [Resubmission, Site, New Jersey]
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Water Street Landing [Site, North Carolina]
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Freedom Roads Program [Program, North Carolina]
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John Brown House [Site, Ohio]
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Restore Cleveland Hope [Program, Ohio]
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Eusebius Barnard House [Site, Pennsylvania]
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Ona Judge Escape Site [Site, Pennsylvania]
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Belle Grove Plantation Escape Site [Site, Virginia]
43rd Round (Winter, 2022)
Entities submitted these applications by the January 15, 2022 deadline. The nominations listed below are organized alphabetically by state. The Network to Freedom Program will accept public feedback until March 6, 2022, 11:59 EST.
For the 43rd application review, the following sites, programs, and facilities have been nominated for entry into the Network to Freedom:
- Samuel D. Burris Burial Site [site, CA]
- Santa Rosa Island, [Gulf Islands NS, NPS: site, FL]
- Old State Capitol [site, IL]
- Dinsmore Homestead [site, KY]
- Magnolia Plantation, [Cane River Creole NHP, NPS: site, LA]
- Oakland Plantation, [Cane River Creole NHP, NPS: site: LA]
- Harve de Grace Marime Museum [program, MD]
- Port City Tobacco [site, MD]
- St. Stephen’s Cemetery [site, MD]
- Robert Gould Shaw/54th Massachusetts Regiment Monument [National Parks of Boston, NPS: site, MA]
- Elijah Fish and George Taylor Burial Sites at Greenwood Cemetery [site, MI]
- Mt Peace Cemetery [site, NJ]
- Plane Street Colored Church [site, NJ]
- Rensalier-Huntoon Underground Railroad Memorial [site, NJ]
- John Brown Farm [site, NY]
- Robert Everett Burial Site [site, NY]
- Ashtabula Harbor [program, OH]
- Cozad-Bates House Interpretive Center [program, OH]
- Spring Grove Cemetery [program, OH]
- Byberry Friends Meeting House [site, PA]
- Destination Freedom Underground Railroad Walking Tour [program, PA]
42nd Round (Summer, 2021)
Entities submitted these applications by the July 15, 2021 deadline. The nominations listed below are organized alphabetically by state.
For the 42nd application review, the following sites, programs, and facilities have been nominated for entry into the Network to Freedom:
- Fort Gaines [site, AL]
- Hal's Kingdom Marker [site, AL]
- Pensacola Pass [site, FL]
- Vann House [site, GA]
- Graceland Cemetery [site, IL]
- Newton Union Cemetery [site, IA]
- Woodland Cemetery [site, IA]
- Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area [program, KS]
- Baltimore Railroad (B&O) Museum [site, MD]
- Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm [site, MD]
- Elkridge Furnace [site, MD]
- From Absence to Presence: Commemorative to Enslaved People of Southern Maryland [site, MD]
- Hagerstown Underground Railroad Trail [program, MD]
- Henry Massey Escape Site [site, MD]
- Port Tobacco Jail [site, MD]
- St. Stephen's AME Church [site, MD]
- Jackson, MI Michigan Central Railroad (MCRR) Corridor [site, MI]
- Bowne House Historical Society [facility, NY]
- Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area [program, NY]
- Armistead House [site, NC]
- Decatur Cemetery [site, OH]
- Uri B. Seeley House [site, OH]
- Wilson Bruce Evans House [site, OH]
- Seizure of the Planter Marker [site, SC]
41st Round (Winter, 2021)
Entities submitted these applications by the January 15, 2021 deadline. The Network to Freedom team will accept public feedback until March 17, 2021. The nominations listed below are organized alphabetically by state.
For the 41st application review, the following sites, programs, and facilities have been nominated for entry into the Network to Freedom:
- Nelson Hackett Project [program, AR]
- The Barrancas [site, FL]
- Shipp Island [site, FL]
- Dungeness Plantation [site, GA]
- Knox County Courthouse [site, IL]
- Lizzie Ambie Escape Site [site, MD]
- Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Station, Douglass Escape Site [Site, MD]
- Dr. Isaac Fiske House [site, MA]
- Lewis and Harriet Hayden House [site, MA]
- Mechanic’s Hall, Lowell [site, MA]
- Underground Railroad Hub [program, MA]
- Wampanoag Tribe in the Escape of Randall Burton Marker [site, MA]
- Bonine House UGRR Research Library [facility, MI]
- Cass County Underground Railroad “Wax Museum in A Box” [program, MI]
- Plane Street Colored Church [Site, NJ]
- Liberty Monument [site, OH]
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Oviatt House [site, OH]
- Brattonsville [site, SC]
- Stono Slave Rebellion at the Elliot and Rose Plantations [site, SC]
- Leinster Bay Waterfront [site, U.S. Virgin Islands]
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