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Travel through the landscapes and waterways where Harriet Tubman and other brave souls risked it all to escape enslavement on the Underground Railroad. DOWNLOAD THE APP Listen to the award-winning audio guide as you explore this byway. You can download it at harriettubmanbyway.org/audio-guides FOLLOW HER FOOTSTEPS Begin your journey at the Dorchester County Visitor Center and pick up a guide with more information about the byway. In Cambridge, visit the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center, dedicated to preserving Tubman’s legacy as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Stop by the Stanley Institute, a one-room African-American school established by the newly freed Black community just after the Civil War. Discover Tubman’s life and legacy at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, where you’ll find immersive and emotive exhibits, programs, and tours. In Bucktown, there’s a village store where, as a teenager, Tubman in her first act of defiance was nearly killed when she tried to help an enslaved man avoid capture. Look for the Faith Community United Methodist Church, built in 1880 on land deeded four decades earlier to a group of African-American trustees, including the Rev. Samuel Green, a free Black farmer and Underground Railroad agent. The village of Choptank Landing on Poplar Neck is near where Tubman led some of her most dangerous rescues from Anthony Thompson’s Plantation. She liberated herself, then returned to rescue her brothers and later her parents from this very area. Walk over the bridge at Marsh Creek and picture Tubman’s expeditions. Near the town of Preston, the 1852 James Webb Cabin is the only surviving pre-Civil War log dwelling on the Eastern Shore known to be constructed by and for an African American. Stop in Denton, which holds many ties to the Underground Railroad. Courthouse Square was the site of a slave market and a jail that held Underground Railroad conductors. The Museum of Rural Life includes exhibits about the Underground Railroad and local African Americans. Find more things to do along the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway at: visitmaryland.org/scenic-byways/harriet-tubman-underground-railroad
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