Harriet Tubman Guide

Travel Information

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:00:52 +0000

For more information on events and visiting the area, contact the following.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway www.harriettubmanbyway.org www.tubmanbywaydelaware.org www.byways.deldot.gov 410-228-1000

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William Still’s Last Residence

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:58:42 +0000

244 South 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-3EB

Pennsylvania became a haven for freedom seekers. Slavery was abolished in this state in 1780. While some self-liberators made their way north with little or no help, Harriet Tubman and other freedom seekers trekked from Wilmington, Delaware to connect with free black and Quaker communities in Chester and Delaware counties in southeast Pennsylvania. These people helped Tubman and others find their way to Philadelphia, where William Still of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee provided shelter, food, clothing, transportation and money for passage north.

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Independence Hall

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:57:28 +0000

Independence National Historical Park 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106 215-965-2305 www.nps.gov/inde

Within Independence National Historical Park, several buildings all located on Independence Square have ties to the Underground Railroad. Important decisions about slavery and freedom, which charted the future of this nation, transpired at Independence Hall, Congress Hall and Old City Hall. The Square was the gathering place for abolition activities and the location for speeches made by abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

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Center for African American Heritage at the Delaware History Museum

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:55:44 +0000

504 N. Market Street Wilmington, DE 19801 302-655-7161 www.dehistory.org

The Wilmington campus of the Delaware Historical Society features the stories of the Underground Railroad in two main locations, Old Town Hall and the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage. The Mitchell Center offers an exhibition, “Journey to Freedom,” featuring the stories of the Underground Railroad in Delaware, including freedom seekers and conductors like Harriet Tubman, Quaker abolitionists like Thomas Garrett, and courageous African Americans who risked their lives to help others to freedom.

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Tubman Garrett Park

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:54:44 +0000

Christina Riverfront 40 Rosa Parks Drive Wilmington, DE 19801 302-425-4890 www.riverfrontwilm.com

The park honors two of Delaware’s most dedicated agents of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett. Born a Quaker in Pennsylvania in 1789, Garrett helped an estimated 2,700 enslaved people escape to freedom over four decades.

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New Castle Court House Museum

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:53:24 +0000

211 Delaware Street New Castle, DE 19720 302-323-4453 www.history.delaware.gov and www.nps.gov/frst

Delaware’s most prominent abolitionists and Underground Railroad stationmasters, Thomas Garrett and John Hunn, were tried and convicted here for aiding the successful 1845 escape of the Hawkins family from slavery in Maryland. Found guilty of violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, Garrett and Hunn were fined thousands of dollars and faced financial ruin. The proslavery judge, Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States, presided over the trial. He would later deliver the controversial opinion in the Dred Scott case of 1857, denying African Americans citizenship. At the close of the trial in 1848, Garrett defiantly told the crowded courtroom, “if anyone knows a fugitive who wants a shelter, and a friend, send him to Thomas Garrett.”

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Corbit-Sharp House

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:52:03 +0000

Historic Odessa Foundation 201 Main Street Odessa, DE 19730 302-378-4119 www.historicodessa.org

Slavery in Delaware was truly a “peculiar institution.” The population struggled between powerful slave interests and defiant anti-slavery groups. Despite lobbying attempts by religious leaders, abolitionists and ordinary citizens to end slavery in the state, Delaware remained firmly proslavery. The town of Odessa stood at a crossroads both culturally and geographically. Odessa’s Quaker, abolitionist, and free black communities offered secret help on a heavily traveled Underground Railroad route.

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Blackbird

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:50:48 +0000

Blackbird State Forest 502 Blackbird Forest Road Smyrna, DE 19977 302-653-6505 dda.delaware.gov/forestry/forest.shtml

Harriet Tubman noted that a place called “Blackbird” was one of her landmarks as she journeyed through Delaware, but her precise pathways and stops here are not known. She may have been referring to one or more of the free black communities that once existed within the Blackbird Forest area. To the north are the historic towns of Middletown and Odessa, also important stops along the Underground Railroad.

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First State Heritage Park/Old State House

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:49:58 +0000

The Old State House 25 The Green Dover, DE 19901 www.history.delaware.gov

First State Heritage Park Welcome Ctr 121 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Dover, DE 19901 www.nps.gov/frst/index.htm www.destateparks.com/heritagepark

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Willow Grove

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:48:16 +0000

Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Area 6693 Willow Grove Road Camden Wyoming, DE 19934 302-284-4795 www.dnrec.delaware.gov

Freedom seekers reaching the Delaware state line, also the Mason-Dixon Line, still were in a slave-holding state and had 75 miles to go before they reached the free state of Pennsylvania.

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Red Bridges

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:47:26 +0000

Christian Park Red Bridges Road Greensboro, MD 21639 www.carolinemd.org/facilities/facility/details/Christian-Park-8

This stream at the headwaters of the Choptank River was possibly near Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad route to Sandtown, Delaware. The current at this location is fast, yet the water is shallow.

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Greensboro

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:46:11 +0000

Greensboro Cemetery North Main Street and Cedar Lane Greensboro, MD 21639

In 1797, Greensboro resident Peter Harrington was president of the Choptank Abolition Society, formed to promote the end of slavery in Maryland. Supported by Quakers, some Methodists, and others, regional societies like this worked on the local level. Petitions to the Maryland House of Delegates first focused on the trafficking of slaves and demanded an end to the exportation of slaves and free people of color.

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Adkins Arboretum

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:44:25 +0000

12610 Eveland Road Ridgely, MD 21660 410-634-2847 www.adkinsarboretum.org

Adkins Arboretum is a 440-acre garden and preserve dedicated to promoting the appreciation and conservation of the region’s native plants. Walking along streams, over wetlands, and through woodlands allows visitors to experience the kinds of landscapes that freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad passed through on their way north.

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Tuckahoe Neck Meeting House

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:42:51 +0000

Meeting House Road Denton, MD 21629 410-479-0655 www.carolinehistory.org/places/tuckahoe-neck-meeting-house/

Built in 1803, this was one of five Quaker meeting houses in Caroline County whose members sustained a local Underground Railroad network. Quakers also supported women’s equality and the end of slavery. By 1790, Quaker meetings on Maryland’s Eastern Shore were free of all slave owners. Quakers then became some of the earliest and most effective activists to end slavery in America and abroad. They quickly began establishing a loose network of individuals with shared values who could help escaping slaves find their way north, and provide support and shelter once they arrived. Abolitionist Hannah Leverton from the Linchester Mill area spoke here and was married here.

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Denton Steamboat Wharf

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:41:51 +0000

10219 River Landing Road Denton, MD 21629 410-479-0655 www.carolinehistory.org/places/choptank-river-heritage-center/

During the 1850s, steamboats loaded with freight and passengers made weekly departures from Denton to Baltimore. Enslaved African Americans worked in shipyards here on the Choptank River. When Underground Railroad conductor Hugh Hazlett was arrested for assisting enslaved people to flee, he boarded a steamboat here in 1858 on his way to trial in Cambridge, downriver, where he faced possible mob violence.

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Moses Viney/Daniel Crouse Memorial Park

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:40:55 +0000

5 Crouse Park Denton, MD 21629 410-479-2050 or 410-479-2730 www.carolinemd.org/facilities/facility/details/Daniel-Crouse-Memorial-Park-42

Moses Viney was born into slavery in Talbot County, but escaped on Easter morning in 1840, after learning he might be sold to slave traders in the Deep South.

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Caroline Courthouse

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:40:08 +0000

Courthouse Square 109 Market Street Denton, MD 21629

Although reconstructed after the Civil War, the courthouse’s place in the middle of town is symbolic of the central role it played in the past. The courthouse symbolized white legal, political, economic and social power during the antebellum period. A slave market was located here, where slaves were auctioned to buyers and traders. Courthouse Square was also the site of the jail where captured runaways and Underground Railroad conductors, like Hugh Hazlett, were held. Hazlett, a 27-year-old Irishman, was arrested in Greensboro for assisting seven people to escape slavery in 1858. After being jailed, Hazlett and the seven others were transported to Cambridge by steamboat for trial. Greeted by an angry mob, Hazlett was sentenced to 44 years in prison.

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William Still Family Interpretive Center

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:39:22 +0000

4-H Park Detour Road Denton, MD 21629 www.carolinemd.org/facilities/facility/details/Caroline-County-4H-Youth-Park-53 and www.carolinehistory.org

William Still’s mother Sidney and four of her children lived in a house similar to this on Alexander “Saunders” Griffith’s plantation. Her husband, Levin Still, had been set free in 1798 by his young enslaver and resettled in New Jersey, hoping to bring his family there. Around 1806, Sidney escaped with her four children, but was soon recaptured.

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Gilpin Point

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:38:23 +0000

Holly Park Drive Harmony, MD 21655 410-479-8120 www.visitcaroline.org/outdoor-recreation/marinas-boat-ramps-landings/

Forty-year-old Joseph Cornish was enslaved by Captain Samuel LeCompte, married to a free black woman, and the father of five children. On December 8, 1855, Cornish most likely knew about the secret network Harriet Tubman relied upon in Philadelphia and New York, when he started out on “foot for Gilpins Point.” He had heard there was a vessel about to sail. He “worked his passage” to Baltimore, and then he made his way to Underground Railroad agent William Still in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. From there, Cornish was forwarded to agent Sydney H. Gay in New York City. He eventually made his way to St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where Harriet Tubman, her brothers and many others from Maryland’s Eastern Shore were settling into their freedom.

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Webb Cabin

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:35:24 +0000

Grove Road Preston, MD 21655 www.carolinehistory.org/places/james-h-webb-cabin/

James H. Webb, a free African-American farmer, built this hand-hewn log home around 1852 and lived here with his enslaved wife and their four children – Charles, Elizabeth, John and Ann, and Webb’s father, Henry. The family were members of nearby Mount Pleasant Church. The one-room home, with its “potato hole,” open fireplace, and loft accessed by a crude ladder, was built of materials found nearby. It sits on its original ballast-stone foundation from ships that plied the Chesapeake Bay.

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Jonestown

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:32:29 +0000

Jonestown Community Park 4472 Nelpine Road Preston, MD 21655

Jenkins Jones established Jonestown as a community of free African-Americans in antebellum years. Jenkins and other free blacks wished to improve their destiny through education, so they founded a school and hired teachers to stay in the community and teach their children. The courageous Jonestown residents had the common bond of faith in God, which gave them hope for their future. They used this faith to empower themselves to create positive change. The people of Jonestown may have had connections in assisting Harriet Tubman and her rescue missions. Today, descendants of the original founders of Jonestown are successful professionals with firm roots in this community.

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:31:18 +0000

22446 Marsh Creek Road Preston, MD 21655

This is the site of the original Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church, an African-American church community established in 1849 when local Quakers sold this land to free blacks, so they could build their own church. The congregation later moved to the town of Preston, where they still meet for services. This cemetery is still used by the church.

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Choptank Landing

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:30:20 +0000

Choptank Road at Choptank River Preston, MD 21655 www.carolinemd.org/facilities/facility/details/Choptank-Marina-9

Harriet Tubman’s parents were active in the Underground Railroad in this area, and she most likely made her first escape from near here. Dr. Anthony C. Thompson employed Tubman’s father, Ben Ross, on his 2,200 acres of heavily forested land in Poplar Neck during the late 1840s and 1850s. He also employed large numbers of free and enslaved black laborers in his timbering operations and sawmill.

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Linchester Mill

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:29:15 +0000

Route 331 and Linchester Road Preston, MD 21655 410-310-9202 www.carolinehistory.org/places/linchester-mill-campus/

Daily life around Linchester Mill provided fertile yet dangerous ground for those seeking freedom. Whites and blacks, free and enslaved, would have regular contact here, at the general store or the post office. Free and enslaved African Americans worked side-by-side, providing a constant flow of information and support to freedom seekers. Quakers and free blacks who lived near the mill secretly helped fleeing slaves pass through the area.

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Jacob and Hannah Leverton House

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:28:14 +0000

3531 Seaman Road Preston, MD 21655 Leverton House is owner-occupied, private property

Refugees from slavery found sanctuary here. One morning in the mid-1840s, a young enslaved woman, in bloodstained clothing, walked up to the Leverton farm. Jacob and Hannah took her in, nursed and fed her, and gave her clean clothing. Jacob was seen later that night traveling northward in his carriage with an unidentified guest. The young woman’s enslaver inquired about her at the Leverton home the next day. Jacob told the man that he had helped the girl and then “let her pass on.” The infuriated slave owner sued Jacob Leverton. Ordered to pay a large fine, Jacob became ill and soon died. His wife Hannah most likely continued their Underground Railroad efforts.

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Faith Community United Methodist Church

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:27:10 +0000

509 Railroad Avenue East New Market, MD 21631 410-943-4383 www.umc.org/find-a-church/church/79030

Sarah Young, a free black woman, deeded land to establish the Colored People’s Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. Now known as Faith Community United Methodist Church, this church is the second structure to house this still-active congregation.

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Pritchett Meredith Farm

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:26:18 +0000

Bucktown Road and Decoursey Bridge Road Bucktown, MD 21613 There is no public access.

The flight of the “Dover Eight” made national headlines on March 8, 1857 when eight slaves escaped together from the Bucktown area, two of them from this farm. The group first sought help from Reverend Samuel Green in East New Market. Then they found assistance from Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben Ross, at Poplar Neck in Caroline County. Eventually they found their way to Thomas Otwell, a black Underground Railroad conductor in Delaware. Tubman trusted Otwell with the group’s safety. Instead, he betrayed her trust and lured them to the Dover, DE, jail so he could collect the $3,000 reward for their capture. With quick thinking and a show of force, the group successfully broke out of the jail and fled to Wilmington, DE, then Philadelphia, PA, and finally to Canada.

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Scott’s Chapel

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:23:02 +0000

Bucktown Road Bucktown, MD 21613 There is no public access.

Harriet Tubman’s master, Edward Brodess, was a member of the congregation founded here in 1812. Tubman, her mother, and siblings may have worshipped here with other enslaved families and their owners. Traditionally, the enslaved were required by their masters to attend church services with them, sitting in the back of the church or in balconies, separate from white congregants. The current building was constructed in 1891. The church had separate graveyards with blacks buried just east of Bucktown Road and whites buried behind the church and grove of trees. Members of the Bucktown community from Harriet Tubman’s time are laid to rest in this cemetery.

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Bestpitch Ferry Bridge

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:22:02 +0000

3706 Bestpitch Ferry Rd. Bucktown, MD 21613

Bestpitch Ferry Bridge is located at the site of a former ferry over the Transquaking River. This historic wooden bridge provides a view of Dorchester County marshlands. In this countryside, knowledgeable local people could hide for days, even weeks, and follow the waterways north toward Underground Railroad connections in the East New Market area, Caroline County, and onto freedom.

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Bucktown Village Store

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:20:48 +0000

4303 Bucktown Road Bucktown, MD 21613 410-901-9255

In 1835, Bucktown was a busy community with two stores, a shopkeeper’s home, blacksmith shop, and surrounding farms at this crossroads. Shipyards were nearby on the Transquaking River.

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Brodess Farm

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:19:48 +0000

Greenbriar Road

Edward Brodess, Harriet Tubman’s enslaver, lived at this site. He moved Tubman’s mother Rit and her children to his farm in Bucktown after 1823 or 1824. Tubman spent her early years here and on nearby farms. No trace remains of Brodess’ original home that once sat near the existing house at the end of the lane.

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Little Blackwater River

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:18:45 +0000

Entrance to Wildlife Drive near Key Wallace Drive and Little Blackwater River Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Church Creek, MD 21622 410-228-2677 www.www.fws.gov/refuge/Blackwater/

A bridge has crossed the Little Blackwater near here since the 1700s, when Harriet Tubman’s grandmother, Modesty, was enslaved on Atthow Pattison’s tobacco farm, situated across the river on the southeast side. Modesty gave birth to Harriet’s mother, Rit Green, there. When Pattison died in January 1797, he gave the enslaved girl “Rittia” to his granddaughter, Mary Pattison, with the stipulation that Rit and all of her future children be set free when “she and they arrive to forty-five years of age.”

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Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:18:05 +0000

2145 Key Wallace Drive Cambridge, MD 21613 410-228-2677 www.fws.gov/refuge/Blackwater/

The forests, marshes, and waterways that characterize the 28,000-acre refuge are largely unchanged from the time that Harriet Tubman lived and worked in Dorchester County. The refuge is situated halfway between where she spent portions of her childhood on Edward Brodess’ farm near Bucktown and the plantation where her father labored and where she was born at Peter’s Neck.

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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:16:39 +0000

4068 Golden Hill Road Church Creek, MD 21622 410-221-2290 dnr2.maryland.gov/publiclands/pages/eastern/tubman.aspx nps.gov/hatu

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center is operated by the Maryland Park Service in partnership with the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park to honor Harriet Tubman.

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Buttons Creek

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:15:54 +0000

MD 335 and Blackwater River Church Creek, MD 21622

Jane Kane was enslaved by Horatio Jones, whom she described as “the worst man in the country.” Jones’ plantation sat along Buttons Creek and the Blackwater River, west of this landing on property that is now part of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Harriet Tubman’s brother, Ben Ross, had hoped to marry Jane, but Jones refused to allow them to do so. Ben arranged for Jane to join him when he and his brothers planned to flee during the Christmas holidays in 1854.

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New Revived Church

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:14:45 +0000

4350 Smithville Road Taylors Island, MD 21669

The New Revived United Methodist Church, once known as Jefferson Methodist Episcopal Church, was established in Smithville in1876. Before the Civil War, Methodist Camp Meetings were popular in the area.

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Joseph Stewart’s Canal/Parson’s Creek

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:13:14 +0000

MD Route 16 and Parson’s Creek Taylors Island, MD 21669

Over a period of 20 years, 1810-1832, enslaved and free blacks dug this seven-mile canal through the marsh by hand. It was a grueling and sometimes deadly endeavor.

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Madison

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:12:14 +0000

MD Route 16 and Madison Canning House Road Madison, MD 21648

Harriet Tubman spent her formative years around Madison. After living in Bucktown as a young child and adolescent, teenaged Harriet Tubman was hired out to work for John T. Stewart, who owned farms, a shipyard and businesses here. She toiled in the Stewarts’ house (no longer standing), then in their fields, on the docks and in their timber business.

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Malone’s Church

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:10:09 +0000

White Marsh Road Madison, MD 21648

For decades before the Civil War, four nearby communities, connected by footpaths through the woods, provided a strong social network among free and enslaved blacks. Founded in 1864, Malone’s Methodist Episcopal Church was the first African-American church to be established by these communities on the eve of emancipation, indicating that strong faith communities existed long before freedom came.

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Church Creek/Whitehaven

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:09:01 +0000

1929 Church Creek Road, Church Creek, MD 21622 Track

Church Creek was a thriving shipbuilding center on the waterfront during the 1830s. Workers in the maritime trades – shipwrights, caulkers, sail makers and blacksmiths – labored and mingled at the wharves with highly mobile, free black sailors. These “Black Jacks” were part of a secret communication network that spanned not only coastal American towns, but also across the Atlantic. They brought news, ideas, and information to enslaved communities, spreading notions of liberty and equality, as well as gossip. Sometimes they provided a means to escape. In the early 19th century, a large community of enslaved and free black families lived and worked between here, Harrisville and White Marsh Roads.

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Stanley Institute

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:07:54 +0000

MD Route 16 Cambridge, MD 21613 410-228-6657 www.visitdorchester.org/stanley-institute

During a three-week period in October 1857, 44 enslaved people in two large groups successfully escaped from farms near here and in Cambridge. Five families – the Vineys, Anthonys, Cornishes, Ambys, and Hills – carried 20 children with them. Heavily armed, the freedom seekers were determined to avoid capture by bounty hunters. Almost caught near Wilmington, Delaware, the freedom seekers reached Philadelphia and then Canada with the help of black and white Underground Railroad agents. National newspapers called the escapes a “Stampede of Slaves.”

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Harriet Tubman Museum

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:06:48 +0000

424 Race Street Cambridge, MD 21613 410-228-0401 www.harriettubmanorganization.org

The Harriet Tubman Organization is one of the oldest community organizations dedicated to the memory of Harriet Tubman. Over the past three decades, their efforts have included memorials to Tubman, tours of significant sites associated with her life, museum exhibits, educational programming, celebrations and community outreach.

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Long Wharf

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:05:31 +0000

High Street at Choptank River Cambridge, MD 21613 www.visitdorchester.org/long-wharf-park

Ships from Africa and the West Indies brought kidnapped Africans and sold them along this waterfront until the trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808. Soon, southern states began cultivating cotton, increasing their need for enslaved labor. About the same time, wheat prices plummeted causing a surge in the sales of enslaved people from the Eastern Shore. Thousands were eventually shipped from this wharf to plantations in the Deep South, never to see their homes or families again.

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Dorchester County Courthouse

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:03:23 +0000

206 High Street Cambridge, MD 21613

In 1850, Harriet Tubman’s niece, Kessiah, and her two children escaped from the auction block at the front of the courthouse. On the day of the auction, Kessiah and her children stood before buyers when the bidding started. Kessiah’s husband, John Bowley, a free black ship carpenter, outbid everyone. When an official appeared to collect payment, no one came forward. Kessiah and her children were missing. John had secretly whisked them away and transported them by boat to Baltimore, where Harriet met them and led them to Philadelphia.

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Harriet Tubman Memorial Garden

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:01:39 +0000

US 50 at Washington Street Cambridge, MD 21613

Relatives of Harriet Ross Tubman still live in Dorchester County, as do descendents of the enslaved and slave holders. Members of the local community chose to honor Tubman at this quiet roadside garden. People across the country can join them in paying their respects to this American hero. Tubman’s story, that of a young slave who freed herself, then returned to rescue family and friends, inspires emotional and artistic expression in works of literature, music, sculpture, paint, and performance. One of Tubman’s relatives, Charles Ross, painted the murals here. Exterior exhibits describe her life and Underground Railroad activities in the area.

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Dorchester County Visitor Center

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:56 +0000

2 Rose Hill Place Cambridge, MD 21613 410-228-1000 www.VisitDorchester.org

Overlooking the Choptank River, the Dorchester County Visitor Center is the perfect place to begin your byway adventure. Inside the center, an exhibit provides background information on Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad activity in the area. Knowledgeable staff can assist you in planning your tour and will provide information on events, accommodations, dining opportunities, shopping, and outdoor experiences.

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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:36 +0000

WELCOME TO TUBMAN COUNTRY

Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1822, Harriet Tubman made the fateful decision to escape in 1849 when she was about to be sold at auction. Traveling by night and hiding by day, she traversed open fields, rivers, marshes and woodlands. Leaving Maryland, she headed north through Delaware, eventually reaching Philadelphia and freedom.

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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway

Larry Hogan — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:54:46 +0000

Dear Friends,

As Maryland’s Governor, I am proud to honor the enduring legacy of Harriet Tubman and her tireless work on behalf of many women and men whom she led to freedom. Through this guide, you can retrace her steps, visit key historic sites, and learn more about the woman whose steadfast belief in justice and equality helped to shape our nation.

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