"It's phenomenal that it's right here...it's too bad it isn't a little more well-known," Mia Woods, a 39-year-old social worker, noted in a 2011 Baltimore Sun article on the Emmart-Pierpont Safe House, a landmark of…

Born on his father’s farm on Rolling Road on the 25th of January in the year 1798, Nicholas Smith was a white man who helped hide and transport enslaved runaways. He was the son of Lakin Smith and Ann Dunn. By profession, Smith was a freight hauler,…