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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center
Honoring a Hero
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. Closed Monday. No reservations needed.
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is located amid the landscapes where Tubman lived and toiled. The unspoiled scenes in the area look much as they would have in Tubman’s time. The Tubman Visitor Center features 10, square feet of engaging, enlightening multimedia exhibits about her life. It’s a great stop itself and a great launching point for exploring the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a scenic, self-guided driving tour that includes 36 sites related to Tubman and the Underground Railroad on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, with more sites in Delaware leading to Philadelphia.
The visitor center is open 10am-4pm, Tuesday through Sunday. No reservations needed. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.
Exhibits feature information about Tubman&#;s childhood and young adulthood, living and laboring under slavery here in Dorchester County and neighboring Caroline County. The center immerses visitors in the secret networks of the Underground Railroad and Tubman&#;s own daring rescue missions. Exhibits also feature Tubman&#;s actions during the Civil W
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Conductor on the Underground Railroad, military leader, suffragist, and descendant of the Ashanti ethnic group in Ghana, Harriet Tubman is an American hero. The sacrifices she made to save her family and friends from slavery continue to inspire others today.
Enslaved Families in Dorchester County
Araminta Ross (Harriet Tubman) was born enslaved in in Maryland's Eastern shore in Dorchester County. Harriet Tubman’s parents, Harriet “Rit” (mother) and Ben Ross (father), had nine children. As a child, Tubman did not have the opportunity to spend time with her family. She was separated from her father when her slaveholder, Edward Brodess, moved only Tubman, her mother and siblings to his farm in Bucktown. Also, three of her older sisters were sold into slavery in the Deep South. By age six she was separated from her mother when she was rented out and forced to work for other masters to care for their children, and catch and trap muskrats in the Little Blackwater River. Tubman remembered the emotional pain being separated from her family, which she never wanted to experience again.
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Harriet Tubman Belowground Railroad Strong Historical Park
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