28 r ATH d SENECA CREEK AQUEDUCT 190 Fa ll Poto sR CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL SCENIC BYWAY 270 29 BOOTH’S ESCAPE SCENIC BYWAY 1 295 Su PATUXENT NATIONAL WILDLIFE itl an RESEARCH REFUGE d Rd 4 5 Severna Park Gambrills Millersville Upper Marlboro i a Av e 3 4 301 ma c R ive 185 Wheaton 193 BELTSVILLE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER r 189 Kensington 97 495 187 495 355 414 197 nn syl Herald Harbor SCENIC BYWAY Mt Zion 2 l Co Se ge st R 255 Mag We ot Galesville ROOTS AND TIDES h y R i v Shady Potomac 190 Beltsville 495 e er Side Cedarhurst Cape Saint Claire 256 Pe ve le 210 ANDREWS van GREAT FALLS TAVERN VISITOR CENTER MacArthur Blvd w Clara Barton Pkwy CARDEROCK RECREATION AREA 396 y Chevy Takoma Park Chase im o or t o eW mac ash R i v e r i n gt on P k harriet tubman underground railroad Bethesda 193 1 Silver Spring AIR CENTER FORCE BASE VISITOR Temple Hills Camp Oxon Bowie Greenbelt Springs Hill Crownsville 97 178 258 Arnold P k wy 223 Bristol rn Ri ve r wy College Park 410 Clinton Glenn Dale ROSARYVILLE STATE PARK Crofton M 201 5 450 C 382 alv tC Parole MT CALVERT HISTORIC PARK r o o m A irp or t Rd 50 301 d er t R Tracys Landing 301 50 450 2 Churchton 50 Deale Leitch Annapolis Fairhaven 301 50 RIVERSDALE HOUSE MUSEUM Fort Washington SURRATT HOUSE MUSEUM 197 Croom PATUXENT RIVER PARK MERKLE WMA 2 Friendship FLETCHER’S BOATHOUSE lR Washington, D.C. d GEORGETOWN VISITOR CENTER Landover 202 223 Cr 50 193 ai n H 424 P BLADENSBURG WATERFRONT PARK B a lt 295 50 Piscataway Mitchellville 381 Davidsonville 214 Tan y Brandywine C H il a ndy l Rd Riva VISITOR CENTER tR d Dunkirk ou R ard d Londontowne Owings S th 260 Rose Haven Normans North Beach Bay Ridge 261 Largo Capitol Heights 210 228 373 301 R iv e 382 p Air or R Mount Harmony Highland Beach Chesapeake Beach Sunderland Mayo r r ve Cr oom An aco r BOOTH’S ESCAPE Su itl SCENIC BYWAY Pomonkey an MYRTLE GROVE WMA 5 414 210 229 Waldorf 5 CEDARVILLE STATE FOREST Rd stia Ri Popes DORCHESTER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM Creek M CAROLINE COUNTY OFFICE OF TOURISM ac River y w om Cr PURSE STATE PARK ot Tan y r 224 Rd d eR vi l l ic s 229 5 Popes Creek Waldorf Cr oom Me LINCHESTER FLOURING MILLS • Preston MYRTLE GROVE WMA an CEDARVILLE STATE FOREST Rd ch East New Market to Goldsboro Pisgah SMALLWOOD STATE PARK 224 425 MT known CARMEL Shore to be constructed by and for SOLOMONS REG MONASTERY (1790) INFORMATION Leonardtown California BOOTH’S ESCAPE on ballast stones an African Built INCLUDING MD 16, MD 14, MD 331, Prince La American. Plata SCENIC BYWAY NAVAL A THOMAS STONE Frederick FLAG PONDS ST MARY’S RIVER Rose MAXWELL PATUXE MD 313 & MD 287 NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Hill Rd NATURE PARK STATE PARK DONCASTER from ships, the cabin stands along what may HALL PARK Benedict Port Tobacco STATE FOREST iv Avenue er Lexin d ST FRANCIS R RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR have been an Underground Railroad Cobb route Island es With the southern portion of your trip XAVIER Callaway ST. MARY’S CHURCH Six CHURCH M SCENIC BYWAY INDIAN ed (1760) ley Chapel AND CEMETARY Great Mills CREEK WMA sN used by Harriet Tubman and her parents. eck Grays Rd Point Rd completed, head north to the East New Rd BATTLE CREEK Charlotte Hall Saint Leonard CYPRESS SWAMP COLTONS POINT Chapel Point The next stop is Denton, which features Calvert Beach Market National Historic SANCTUARY PURSE Nanjemoy District, stopping RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR Long Beach STATE PARK ST CLEMENTS ISLAND SCENIC BYWAY STAR SPANGLED BANNER Bel Alton many ties to the Underground Railroad. ST IGNATIUS STATE PARK & MUSEUM for antiques shopping along the way and Valley Lee SCENIC BYWAY CHURCH (1662) ZEKIAH SWAMP NATURAL Mechanicsville OLD DURHAM CALVERT CLIFFS a Broomes ENVIRONMENT AREA Courthouse Square was the site of a slave tu CHURCH (1732) then taking a self-guided walking tour NUCLEAR POWER PLANT xe Island Rd Budds C nt re Ri e k held Underground market and a jail that ve Rd amid fi ne examples of 18th-, 19th-and 20th-r Piney Point Broomes Railroad conductors. The nearby Tuckahoe CALVERT CLIFFS ST IGNATIUS century architecture. Once in town, look for Island STATE PARK CHURCH (1788) Popes Creek PINEY POINT PATTERSON JEFFERSON Neck Meeting House was built in 1803 COVE POINT LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM Faith Community United Methodist Church MUSEUM & PARK Chaptico LIGHTHOUSE CRAIN MEMORIAL GREENWELL STATE PARK and featured prominent Quaker women located near an old train station. INFORMATION CENTER St George’s Island RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR SCENIC BYWAY Hollywood CHRIST speakers who knew Tubman, and the BOOTH’S ESCAPE Faith Community was built in 1880 on EPISCOPAL oc SCENIC BYWAY CALVERT k Poi CHURCH n t MARINE MUSEUM Museum of Rural Life includes exhibits (1736) land deeded four decades earlier to a group 234 Creek 224 Rd eR d vi l l ic s 6 Popes 301 238 Me ch an of African-American trustees, including the Rev. Samuel Green, a free black farmer and Underground Railroad agent. Continue to Linchester, the home of a historic grist mill that employed both free and enslaved African Americans. A strong Quaker settlement is revealed through the home of Quaker abolitionists Jacob and Hannah Leverton and at the site of a former Quaker meeting house at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, likely a hiding place along the Underground Railroad. Near the town of Preston, the 1852 James Webb Cabin is the only surviving pre-Civil War log dwelling on the Eastern Ca iv na er Accokeek 214 495 STAR-SPANGLED BANNER SCENIC BYWAY Mattawoman STAR-SPANGLED BANNER SCENIC BYWAY 2 Lower SMITHSONIAN Marlboro ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CTR 468 PATUXENT RIVER PARK 255 4 Mattapex Randle Cli Beach SMALLWOOD STATE PARK DONCASTER STATE FOREST Nanjemoy Pomonkey White Plains Saint Charles Po to m ac Ri OLD DURHAM CHURCH (1732) d Rd 4 301 White Plains nn Saint Charles syl van i a Av e DR SAMUEL A MUDD HOUSE MUSEUM 4 ROOTS AND TIDES SCENIC BYWAY 381 s Huntingtown We Galesville Shady Side 2 ve t Ri r Willows Breezy Point Beach Plum Point ve 224 Upper Marlboro Bristol Mt Zion 256 Cedarhurst 263 ROOTS AND TIDES SCENIC BYWAY 495 Pisgah Hill 425 Oxon Temple Hills Camp Springs ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE MT CARMEL MONASTERY (1790) Pe 223 THOMAS STONE Clinton Rose NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Hill Rd 6 ROSARYVILLE STATE PARK La Plata 488 rt R BOOTH’S ESCAPE a l ve tC SCENIC BYWAY 382 d 5 258 Tracys Landing 2 MAXWELL Churchton Prince Frederick Rd Port Tobacco SURRATT HOUSE MUSEUM 301 5 MT CALVERT HISTORIC PARK Cro o m A 231 ir po r t Rd PATUXENT RIVER PARK ST. MARY’S CHURCH MERKLE WMA AND CEMETARY HALL PARK RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR Fort Washington SCENIC BYWAY Croom Friendship Deale Leitch Benedict 231 Fairhaven FLAG PONDS NATURE PARK Chapel Point Rd 223 Chapel Point ai n H INDIAN CREEK WMA Rose Haven BATTLE CREEK North CYPRESS SWAMP SANCTUARY 261 es Six 2 P Piscataway 373 ST IGNATIUS CHURCH (1662) Brandywine 381 Bel Alton C a nd y H il l Rd 6 VISITOR CENTER R ard d Dunkirk Charlotte Hall Owings 260 Beach Grays Rd 301 Accokeek 210 6 228 Mattawoman Ai ZEKIAH SWAMP NATURAL Mechanicsville Riv e ENVIRONMENT AREA Budds C Lower re STAR-SPANGLED BANNER ek Marlboro R 382 d BYWAY SCENIC 234 rp or tR d Mount Harmony 4 5 Chesapeake Beach SCENIC BYWAY Sunderland 235 STAR SPANGLED BANNER Broomes Island Rd Saint Leonard TILGHMAN Calvert Bea ISLAND Long Bea 264 Tilghman e n Cli Beach Randle t Ri ve r at P ux 265 2 PATUXENT RIVER PARK BUCKTOWN VILLAGE Willows STORE Chaptico Huntingtown 263 Broomes Island • Cambridge Chesapeake Bay JEFFERSON PATTERSON Breezy Point Beach PARK & MUSEUM GREENWELL STATE PARK 301 DR SAMUEL A MUDD BOOTH’S ESCAPE HOUSE MUSEUM SCENIC BYWAY CRAIN MEMORIAL INFORMATION CENTER 381 238 oc 257 k Poi nt 2 VISITOR SCENIC CENTER AT SAILWINDS BYWAY Hollywood PARK EAST CHRIST ROOTS AND TIDES EPISCOPAL SCENIC BYWAY Cambridge 235 CHURCH RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR Plum Point SHARPS ISLAN LIGHTHOUSE Wico R (1736) 4 242 CALVERT MARINE M mic Rd Solom iv oR 488 5 er 5 Po 243 to 231 m 237 ac R 6 231 2 301 6 264 P 5 265 249 234 235 2 Wico about the Underground Railroad and local iv oR African-Americans. From Denton, head west to Adkins iv Avenue er Arboretum in Ridgely, where you can explore Cobb Island Po to m R 235 257 mic Rd 234 5 Solomons 4 242 Leonardtown California ST MARY’S RIVER STATE PARK 237 SOLOMONS REGIONAL INFORMATION CENTER NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER er 243 (1760) environments like Tubman would have traversed during her escape. An Underground COLTONS POINT Railroad audio tour guides visitors along trails ST CLEMENTS ISLAND through woods, wetlands and fi elds to discover plants that could have been used for food and medicine. It also describes dangers and environmental barriers to a successful escape. Another option is to continue north through the historic towns of Greensboro and Goldsboro before reaching the Mason and Dixon line along the Delaware border. ■ ac R ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH M ed ley Callaway sN eck Rd Lexington Park Great Mills STATE PARK & MUSEUM Valley Lee RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TOUR SCENIC BYWAY 235 THE ELMS WMA Historic Saint Mary’s C 249 Piney Point PINEY POINT LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ST IGNATIUS CHURCH (1788) St George’s Island 5 POINT LOOKOUT STATE PARK 54 | maryland byways
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