http://harriettubmanbyway. org/harriet-tubman-memorial-garden/ Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center 424 Race St, 21613 410-228-0401 Keeping Harriet Tubman’s legacy alive with museum tours (by appointment), literature and historical displays. harriettubmanbyway.org/ harriet-tubman-museum Long Wharf at Cambridge 100 High St, 21613 410-228-1000 Seven enslaved men and women escaped from Town Point on July 24, 1858 with the help of Irish immigrant conductor, Hugh Hazlett. They were caught in northeastern Caroline County and then shipped back to Cambridge on the steamboat Kent . A mob awaited their arrival here to lynch Hazlett. The sheri ordered the steamboat to leave Long Wharf and dock elsewhere. Hazlett was taken to the Cambridge jail, tried, convicted and sent to prison for 44 years. The freedom seekers were re-enslaved. Other freedom seekers, John Wesley Hughes and George Hackett fl ed from Bucktown and used a forged pass to board the steamer Kent for Baltimore. The suspicious captain returned them to Cambridge where Hughes was returned to his enslaver, Pritchett Meredith. harriettubmanbyway. org/long-wharf Pritchett Meredith Farm Bucktown & Decoursey Bridge Rd, 21613 In March 1857, Thomas Elliott and Denard Hughes fl ed the farm of their enslaver, Pritchett Meredith. With six other freedom seekers, the group was betrayed by a black Underground Railroad agent, Thomas Otwell, who had been enticed by the $3,000 reward for their capture. Boldly escaping the Dover, Delaware jail, the freedom seekers traveled north and eventually joined Harriet Tubman in Canada. The group became known as the “Dover Eight.” In 1861, another enslaved man, John Wesley Hughes, fl ed from the Meredith Farm with George Hackett from a neighboring farm, but the pair were eventually arrested and returned. harriettubmanbyway.org/ pritchett-meredith-farm Stanley Institute MD 16 W & Bayley Rd, 21613 410-228-6657 Restored, 19th-century one-room schoolhouse, among the oldest in the state to be organized by African Americans. harriettubmanbyway. org/stanley-institute Staplefort Farm: Bob Manokey Escape Site Wildlife Dr, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, 2145 Key Wallace Dr, 21613 410-228-2677 On December 10, 1828 Bob Manokey fl ed from the Staplefort family, whose plantation sat on the Little Blackwater River near the Little Blackwater Bridge. The Stapleforts advertised a $150 reward for his capture and return, noting that Manokey was a very skilled man -a great sawyer. Given Manokey’s experience as a sawyer and the Staplefort’s home on a navigable river, Manokey would have been familiar with the watermen who manned the vessels that carried timber to shipyards throughout the Chesapeake and to New England. He could have relied on this transportation for his escape. Visitors may drive along the Little Blackwater Bridge or Wildlife Drive to see the Staplefort farm. fws.gov/refuge/Blackwater/ Waugh Chapel United Methodist Church 425 High St, 21613 410-228-5189 Site of the oldest African-American Methodist congregation (1825) in Cambridge. umc.org/fi nd-a-church/ church/79020 Centreville QUA F-21 Hope School 125 Ruthsburg Rd, 21617 410-758-2502 In 1892, this one-room schoolhouse was listed as “Colored School No. 2.” It was restored and moved to Queen Anne’s County High School. qac.org/208/schools Kennard School 410 Little Kidwell Ave, 21617 410-758-2502 Built in 1936 to be the county’s fi rst secondary school for African Americans. Named for Lucretia Kennard Daniels, who, along with Larrie S. Jones, helped purchase land for the school. https://www.historicqac. org/historic-site/old-kennard-high-school Chesapeake City CEC B-22 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum 815 Bethel Rd, 21915 215-656-6615; 410-885-5622 The canal provided a route for freedom seekers aboard steamboats, schooners and other water craft. Boats entered at Elk River in Cecil County and exited at Delaware City, Delaware. This route to Philadelphia was safer for smaller watercraft than the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay. William Still and Sydney Howard Gay recorded escapes on steamboats and schooners passing through the canal. https://chesapeakecity. com/cd-canal-museum Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 31
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