Historic Sodus Point

The Sodus Point tunnel

  • The Sodus Point Tunnel

    The Sodus Point Tunnel

    Stories of a tunnel running from Silver Waters B&B down John Street, said to have served the Underground Railroad and uncovered during 1976 sewer work.

  • The Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed?

    The Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed?

    A once-skeptical look at stories of a Sodus Point slave tunnel, weighing oral histories from local families and accounts from the 1976 sewer work.

  • Is this the Sodus Point Slave Tunnel?

    Is this the Sodus Point Slave Tunnel?

    Ground-penetrating radar seemed to support a local Underground Railroad tunnel, but 2013 mortar tests dated the 20-foot tunnel to the 1900s and showed it carried utilities.

  • How the Freedom Seekers got to Sodus Point

    Amy Post’s 1884 account of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, including the first freedom seeker recaptured there and freed by abolitionists, who ended up in Sodus Point.