National Historical Parks - Maryland

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

4/22/2017 Continued south to Church Creek to the new VC for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park. We toured the excellent exhibits here, showing all the aspects of Tubman’s difficult life. There was a video loop running, showing the opening ceremonies for the VC including an excellent portrayal of Tubman giving a speech. To get some sort of site pertaining to Tubman, we drove further south to Bucktown to a historical marker for the Brodess farm, where Tubman spent her childhood years. The site is in the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, and also on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, which we got on at Cambridge and continued on a loop back there.

The Park VC sign ...

... and me out front

Cool representation of Tubman saving people

Tubman photo

Cautionary sign

A panel of Tubman images

Mom and Harriet

Tubman bust

Me at the Brodess Farm

Historic signage ...

... and interpretive panel

In the Network ...

... and on the Byway

Byway sign