As Black History Month comes to an end, there are still sites and history that you and your family can enjoy year-round. One of those includes the tour of Black historical sites in Madisonville. Ohio is known for its rich history and involvement with the Underground Railroad. Through stories of freedom fighters, we continue to learn about Black history. One way to do that is the historical Black bike tour in Madisonville created by local historian and resident Chris Hanlin. "I always knew that it had a reputation as sort of a progressive interracial community. But it was a long time before I realized how deep that history is, that it goes a long way back," said Hanlin. Madisonville was a mostly white community until the end of the Civil War, but there were African Americans coming through Madisonville on the Underground Railroad. "One of our principal streets, Wetsel Avenue, was named for Henry B. Wetsel, who was an underground railroad conductor. And then immediately after the Civil War, you get a strong influx of African Americans coming into Madisonville, and a very strong community developed very quickly," he said. "The river crossings were incredibly important, but you still weren't safe because southern Ohio was crawling with bounty hunters. So there had to be a long string of stations headed Northward, and Henry Wetsel's house was one of them."And that's just one of the many stops along this Black history bike tour."Benna's barber shop was, for a long time, one of Madisonville's most visible Black-owned businesses. David Benna was the barber, he was there for decades," said Hanlin.Churches in Madisonville are where community was built. Trinity Baptist Church was built by one of the most famous Black architects in Cincinnati before the civil rights movement. Another stop, Madisonville High School, is now a local church's Bible college. "The high school principal there was a woman named Jenny Moore Bryan, who was an African American woman. She was principal of that high school by 1905. Jenny Bryan was supervising white teachers and teaching a mostly white student population. So, as for an African American woman at that time, 1905, it was a stunning level of authority," he said. And this is where this history lesson takes a turn 바카라 게임 웹사이트� meet Linda Brown. She is now a Sunday school teacher and wife of a pastor in the same building she once attended school when the high school was turned into an elementary school."After they moved the high school. They moved it and built lions Junior High School which is now jumpy, Parker. So this all became Elementary School, the building where we are across the street. This is a back the side of the building over there before we tore it down. So it was a huge school tore down and build everything around and it was like wow, and then things begin to change after the riots in '67," she said. Still in awe to this day, the original building has markings she remembers. "I'm like, wow, telling people I used to go here. Look at me, like go where I said here. I was first and second grader downstairs."The route is intended as a bike tour because all the stops are within a mile radius. You can learn more about the bike tour and stops along the way here.