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The Portland Freedom Trail celebrated its one-year anniversary Saturday with the dedication of three granite markers at significant anti-slavery and underground railroad sites.
Portland's first 13 granite markers went up in various locations in the Old Port and Munjoy Hill last summer. The marked sites are intended to help tell the story of the underground railroad and the abolitionist movement in Maine.
The three additional sites are the former Deacon Brown Thurston home, at Fore and Union streets; a barber shop owned by Charles Frederick Eastman, an anti-slavery activist and African-American entrepreneur, at Congress and North streets; and the former home of the Rev. Amos Noe and Christiana Williams Freeman, station masters on the underground railroad, at Hancock and Federal streets.
Sites dedicated last summer included the Abyssinian...