Learn about the Liverpool Family Home Site
James and John Liverpool, both from Virginia, bought a home for $1300 in 1831. The brick building between Front and Second streets was partitioned into two homes, 46 and 48 Race Street. After James died around 1848, Frances Liverpool (reportedly his wife) and her two daughters Elizabeth and Mary lived in 46 Race Street leading up to the Civil War.
Prior to 1860, Sarah and Peter Fossett moved into 48 Race Street. Upon Frances’ death in 1868, the house was left to her children. Mary died in 1881, and it was reported in The Cincinnati Commercial that she had “resided in the city for over fifty years” and that “In the time of slavery her hands ministered to the escaping bondsmen and her heart poured forth her fervent prayers for the liberation of the oppressed.”
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Elizabeth, or “Betsy,” survived her sister and it was then later reported of her, “During the ante-bellum times she assisted many slaves to freedom with the others in the Underground Railway.”
Later, when Sarah Fossett passed away, her obituary in the Cincinnati Post was headlined, “Woman of the Underground Railroad Dead.”
Location
182 Race St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Public Information and Further Reading
182 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 | 39.097097506585,-84.513428807259
What’s there today: Central Riverfront Garage / The Escape Game Cincinnati – Original home address: 46 & 48 Race St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Sara Mayrant Walker Fossett / Peter Farley Fossett Historical Marker
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Follow Underground Railroad stories of courage along the Ohio River border with the GPS-mapped and historically accurate Freedom Journey App, filled with accredited content created by America’s River Roots in collaboration with the Cincinnati Museum Center and National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Speak the names of the abolitionists and Freedom Seekers risking everything for freedom.
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The Liverpool Family Home Site is AI-generated and represents what the area near the location may have looked like
