Underground RailRoad is a popular topic on our joint Emails. First,let me say that the escape route north for slaves was "not" underground, though they may have been hidden ,at times,in basements. And,that the interior walls of some of the old brick and stone houses often required building from ground,or foundation up. So spaces were created under houses that were not easily viewed into. I'm sitting above such a space at this minute. Many years,and many pounds ago, I could wiggle into the space, but not now. The term "Underground" was used more in the sense that we use the term today for our criminal element.There was no route north underground. And,make no mistake, when my dad's uncle,Capt Will Fagaley conducted slaves north, he was breaking Federal law. "FREE SOIL" road runs south from Georgetown,Brown Co,on the ridge between White Oak and Straight Creek,while the old ST RT 68 from Georgetown to Ripley wound down to Straight Creek,and up again. Ripley certainly had it's conductors. Rev Rankin,and his house full of armed sons home on the hill n of town is most noted,but perhaps the bravest was the black founder,Parker, living right on the river bank,as Robert Fee did at Moscow,Oh. Likely somebody on-line has a tradition of why FREE SOIL road was so named- without naming the Ripley men. Ripley north to the Presbyterians at RED OAK, or north east up Eagle, or old RT 68 towards Georgetown,were the routes the RIPLEY men used. Somebody else used FREE SOIL. And if you want to relate how NORTH POLE Rd,or CHICKEN Hollow Rd were named,that's fine. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.