Maryland Byways Road Trips FUEL UP Harriet’s Homemade Ice Cream & Cakes Cambridge Big Daddy’s Soul Food Kitchen Cambridge Cafe Underground Cambridge Market Street Public House Denton Caroline’s Denton SCENIC Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center BYWAY Tuckahoe State Park & Adkins Arboretum Queen Anne Walk trails lined with sweet-smelling yellow jonquils — remnants of former farmsteads — or look for feather-helmeted wood ducks while paddling. The arboretum’s Rooted Wisdom experience illuminates the role nature played in the Underground Railroad. Caroline Courthouse Denton The reconstructed courthouse serves as a somber reminder of the past. Freedom seekers and Underground Railroad conductors were held prisoner at the courthouse jail and many enslaved Black Americans were auctioned off at a market held in the courthouse square. STAY ALONG THE WAY Martinak State Park Cabins Denton Riverside Lodge on Hoopers Island Fishing Creek Cambridge House Bed & Breakfast Cambridge Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina Cambridge Tuckahoe Neck Meeting House Denton This 1803 clapboard structure and Quaker meeting house was a place of worship for many abolitionists who supported and sheltered freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Bucktown General Store & Brodess Farm Cambridge Make an appointment to tour the inside of this 19th-century country store that was likely the site of Tubman’s first activism. Down the road is the Brodess Farm, where Tubman was enslaved as a child. VISITMARYLAND.ORG 29
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