Last updated: January 8, 2023
Place
Site of The Holmes Alley House
Quick Facts
Location:
Holmes Alley
Significance:
Site of the Underground Railroad
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
MANAGED BY:
Private Residence
Like her father Reverend Samuel Snowden, Isabella Holmes assisted fugitives who came to Boston on the Underground Railroad. The Account Book of Francis Jackson, Treasurer The Vigilance Committee of Boston records her as boarding twelve fugitives in the early months following the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. She lived here with her husband on Holmes Alley.1
This Account Book lists Isabella Holmes assisting several freedom seekers in November 1850. (Credit: Dr. Irving H. Bartlett Collection, 1830-1880)
Footnotes
- Kathryn Grover and Janine V. Da Silva, "Historic Resource Study: Boston African American National Historic Site," Boston African American National Historic Site, (2002), 107.