A blue plaque, hanging on the building in London where they resided, commemorates Ellen and William Craft. The Crafts escaped enslavement in the United States, travelling to Britain to avoid recapture following the introduction of the Fugitive Slave…
The Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial was built in 1891 in Peaks Island, in Casco Bay, which is part of the city of Portland, Maine. It initially served as a summer vacation lodge for the Civil War veterans of the Eighth Maine Regiment with the capacity…
