'It is a 12-mile-long water trail that covers at least two centuries worth of history, ranging from the Underground Railroad, the Civil Rights movement, the birth of justice movement,' said Lillian Holden, Openlands Education and Outreach Coordinator:
, a waterway that flows through hundreds of years of African American history and the African American Heritage Water Trail.
A big piece of that history is where a marker has been placed at the corner of 134th Place and St. Lawrence. The Ton Farm was s part of the Underground Railroad. They were a Dutch immigrant family, and their house became an important stop. "Even though we don't think of slavery as an issue in Chicago or up north, but you had to be out of the United States to actually be free. So you had to leave the home of the free to be free," Gaines said., who founded the village bearing his name, operated a ferry that carried the fleeing slaves across the river. , one of the oldest incorporated Black communities in the United States, and the oldest Black suburb in the Chicago area.
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