Location of Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 689 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: “The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

One can locate Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad mural as an inset panel at the bottom of his larger Civil War mural, which depicts Portsmouth's own, Battery L at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This file appears in: “The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

“The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Hidden away in plain sight, like the operations of the Underground Railroad itself, one finds Robert Dafford's mural honoring the heroic men and women who fled their enslavement in the southern…