Johnson House (Underground Railroad site)

The Johnson House at this address is an 1848 brick rowhouse in Germantown that served as the home of the Johnson family and is documented as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It is operated as a historic house museum interpreting African American free-black life and anti-slavery activity in the antebellum period. Interpretations at the site rely on both documentary records and oral histories, and some specific details about Underground Railroad activity at the house are based on local tradition as well as archival evidence.