[J. R. VanHoose]

I've got one for yah jr! I've been told that there is a house on prospect ave. in ashland that has an underground tunnell all the way down to the ohio river and it used to be part of the underground railroad! Any truth whats the story??

Now that one I am not sure about, if anyone can shed some light on the subject it would be greatly appreciated. I can tell you this. Slaves did go down the Big Sandy trying to make their way to free territory. I have read old Ohio newspaper adds calling for help locating "lost" slaves from the Floyd County area. I know Maysville has an underground railroad museum, but I am pretty sure that the Catlettsburg/Ashland area was a "big" station on the Underground Railroad for slaves coming from Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, and Southwestern Virginia. Where else would they have gone?