National Underground Railroad Museum

_{^{38 West Fourth Street}}

_{^{Historic District}}

_{^{Maysville, KY 41056}} 

Since 1995 the National Underground Railroad Museum has sought to preserve the shared heritage of blacks and whites as they relate to slavery and the antebellum era, the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad, and events leading to, during and after the Civil War. Thousands have visited the N.U.R.M. at its former location at the Maysville Visitors Center on Third Street. Today visitors now can come to the museum's new permanent home in the Bierbower House. Built in the 1830s by natives of Pennsylvania - Jonathan Ayers and Lucetta Bierbower, in their home slaves were concealed and secured for a moment in time, hidden beneath the floor boards of the lower level of the home. The National Underground Railroad Museum features:

• Priceless artifacts of local descendants of African slaves.
• Materials related to the abolitionist movement and the impact local Kentucky and regional anti-slavery activists who made a national impact. 
• Public viewing of the Bierbower "Safe House" lower level and hiding place.

Discover the Borderland, the edge of freedom and slavery.

Discover a place of times gone but never forgotten. 

Pictured: Bierbower "Safe House" - National Underground Railroad Museum.