Events

Learn about James Knapp, descendent of Dinah Jackson who was enslaved to the Van Rensselaer family who lived at today's Historic Cherry Hill. View artwork from contemporary artists that interprets…

Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. Tours are usually hosted at 12:30pm and 2:00pm on Saturdays. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at…

The Executive Board Committee of Underground Railroad Education Center meets virtually at 4pm on the second Tuesday, of each month. A zoom link will be sent via email to board…

Do you like researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Cataloguing?  Planning programs, exhibits, displays? This very active committee needs more volunteers to carry out its important work for UREC and for…

Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. Tours are hosted at 12:30pm and 2:00pm on Saturdays. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at The…

Graduate students in history and information science will be joining faculty members and community partners for a meet and greet on Monday, September 15 from 5pm-7pm at the Campus Center…

Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of UREC. Board meetings are…

Explore three of Albany’s finest historic sites and museums to explore stories of abolition, freedom, immigration and labor at the Ten Broeck Mansion, The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, and…

  Please join us at Albany Rural Cemetery by 11:30am for the installation of a headstone at the gravesite of Stephen and Harriet Myers. A reception will follow at Israel…

While Albany’s Underground Railroad had many vital contributors, Stephen and Harriet Myers remained its steadfast leaders. Beginning in the early 1840s, they utilized personal resources and Stephen's Northern Star Association,…