The Guaranty Bank now called the Prudential Building in Buffalo, New York, with its embellished terra-cotta designs, was completed in 1896 and designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. (Aug. 4, 2018)

The Guaranty Bank now called the Prudential Building in Buffalo, New York, with its embellished terra-cotta designs, was completed in 1896 and designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. (Aug. 4, 2018)

The Guaranty Bank now called the Prudential Building in Buffalo, New York, with its embellished terra-cotta designs, was completed in 1896 and designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. (Aug. 4, 2018)

A historical marker where the Little Harlem Hotel, which burned and was torn down, once stood in the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor and steps away from the Colored Musician’s Club in Buffalo, New York. “In 1934, Ann Montgomery converted her ice cream parlor and Oriental Billiard Parlor on this site into the Little Harlem Hotel. Cab Calloway, Billy Eckstine, Della Reese, Sarah Vaughn and many others performed and stayed here when downtown hotels were segregated.” (Aug. 4, 2018)

This map of sorts inside the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibit of the network of people and places known as the Underground Railroad. (Aug. 5, 2018)

This map of sorts inside the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibit of the network of people and places known as the Underground Railroad. (Aug. 5, 2018)

This map of sorts inside the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibit of the network of people and places known as the Underground Railroad. (Aug. 5, 2018)

This map of sorts inside the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibit of the network of people and places known as the Underground Railroad. (Aug. 5, 2018)

This map of sorts inside the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibit of the network of people and places known as the Underground Railroad. (Aug. 5, 2018)

A display at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, New York, tells the story of how everyday hard working people at the Cataract House, a world class hotel in Niagara Falls, risked their freedom and their lives to help others achieve their freedom. (Aug. 5, 2018)

This exhibit of the Suspension Bridge at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, New York, a border crossing between Canada and the United States. It was first built as a footbridge in 1848 and in 1855, it was rebuilt with railway tracks on a top level and carriage road below. The bridge was part of the Underground Railroad, a network of routes designed to smuggle the enslaved from the United States to freedom in Canada, a country that declared the liberation of any slave who entered. Before the American Civil War, fleeing slaves had only four main routes into Canada, of which one was crossing the Niagara River. Harriet Tubman was said to use this passage to help some enslaved find freedom. (Aug. 5, 2018)

It would be difficult to tell the story of the Underground Railroad without this woman’s courageous acts of selflessness and desire to free the enslaved….Harriet Tubman, who after escaping slavery in 1849, went on to become one of the Underground Railroad’s most daring and successful operatives in the years preceding the Civil War and then a scout, spy and nurse for the Union army. She was so notorious among slaveholders that at one point a $40,000 reward was unsuccessfully offered for her capture. This poster stands in the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, and is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibits. (Aug. 5, 2018)

Posters of the dashing waiters, porters and cooks, behind the elegant facade of the Cataract House, a world class hotel in Niagara Falls, New York, who operated a highly successful network on the Underground Railroad. This poster stands in the entryway of the Amtrak station in Niagara Falls, New York, and is part of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s exhibits. (Aug. 5, 2018)

The wooden structures of the Suspension Bridge, which stood from 1855 to 1897 across the Niagara River, were replaced and this is what you see now which is across from the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, New York. The bridge was part of the Underground Railroad, a network of routes designed to smuggle the enslaved from the United States to freedom in Canada, a country that declared the liberation of any slave who entered. (Aug. 5, 2018)

The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center on Depot Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York, opened earlier this year in May and tells the stories of everyday heroism in the face of impression. The heritage center, to the right, is fittingly located next to the Amtrak train station which is also where to enter the heritage center. Although the Underground Railroad was neither a railroad nor underground, this network of routes, ways and means helped freedom seekers reach safe haven in Canada where slavery was abolished and no person could be claimed as property. (Aug. 5, 2018)