1 US dollar 2023 Ohio – Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a loose and decentralized network of individuals, families, friends, and churches that secretly helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. The National Park Service recognizes more than a dozen trails through Ohio that are memorials to people who escaped slavery and those who helped them along the way.

Other states had active lines in the informal underground railroad network, but Ohio’s role was critical. Ohio was the southernmost free state, bordering the northernmost slave states of Kentucky and (then) Virginia. There were nearly 3,000 miles of roads throughout the state with shelters or “stations” that helped escapees escape to freedom.

Series: American Innovation
Denomination: 1 USD
Weight: 8.1g
Diameter: 26.5mm

American Innovation, $ 1, is dedicated to the pioneering achievement of individuals or groups in every state, county and every territory in the United States. The program started in 2018. Coins are issued in the order of entry of the states into the union.