Location of John J. Minor's Barbershop in the Sanborn Insurance Map of 1911

ID: 695 ~ Source: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06866_006/ ~ Date: 1911

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

Location of John J. Minor's Barbershop in the Sanborn Insurance Map of 1911

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Born in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not long after the city had expelled many of its Black residents during its infamous “Black Friday” enforcement of Ohio laws requiring African…