Millennium Trail

The Friends of Freedom Society is proud to have been named as a winner of the National Underground Railroad Millennium Trail. Millennium Trails is a national initiative of the White House Millennium Council in partnership with the Department of Transportation and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Millennium Trails will recognize, promote and stimulate the creation of trails to "honor the past and imagine the future" as part of America's legacy for the year 2000. Click here for more details about our award.

On Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1999 U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary, Rodney Slater met with members of the Friends of Freedom Society (FOFS) to visit historic Underground Railroad sites in the City of Springboro, Ohio.  Click here for our press release announcing the visit.  Click here to see pictures and the DOT press release.   

FOFS President, Cathy Nelson, represented the Friends of Freedom Society - Ohio Underground Railroad Association and the Underground Railroad trail at a meeting at the White House on the National Millennium Trails initiative on Thursday, October 21 called by First Lady Hillary Clinton.