[2] Many of the city's population of free blacks lived along or near Tanner's Alley, a 500-foot section of the road.
[1] The Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded in 1816, was located there, as well as other Underground Railroad stations in the homes of free black men and women.
[5][3] Located at Commonwealth and Walnut streets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was central to the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movements of the 19th century.
Fugitive slaves hid at Joseph Bustill's & William Jones' houses, a block apart.
Frederick Douglass & William Lloyd Garrison spoke at Wesley Union AME Zion Church nearby.