Hello, I'm researching the anti-slavery movement and the Underground Railroad in West Virginia. I'm also doing a bit of research into the routes of the domestic slave trade. I'd be especially interested in any information you may have about the movement of slaves to the Ohio River through what is now West Virginia. I've found some fleeting references in our state history books. I suspect UGRR activity at the inns along the turnpike routes that ran east-west: the National Road to Wheeling, the Northwestern Turnpike from Winchester to Parkersburg, the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike and the Midland Trail from Greenbrier County to Point Pleasant. I suspect there were escapes at these inns and active UGRR work by someone at many of the inns along the way. For example, Luke Jaco who operated a station at his inn near West Union, WV. Oral history says the inns at Burnt House (Ritchie County) and the California House (Wirt County) were stops on the UGRR.