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 CatoctinFurnace, Thurmont The historic Catoctin Furnace produced iron products from the time of the American Revolution to the 20th century. Today the furnace and surrounding village tell the stories of the community of free and enslaved people who lived and worked there.

Harriet Tubman Mural by Michael Rosato in Cambridge, Maryland. (Photo by Jill Jasuta)

Immerse yourself in more than two centuries of history and culture with our African-American Heritage Sites brochure. HARRIET TUBMAN Discover these compelling stories at Take a powerful road trip to the land where Harriet locations in Downtown Frederick and Tubman’s journey began. Be inspired by the Tubman around the county. Mural, see the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad visitfrederick.org • 800-999-3613 Visitor Center and walk in the footsteps of a hero.

EMBARK ON THIS SELF-GUIDED TOUR HEART OF THE CHESAPEAKE HarrietTubmanByway.org DORCHESTER 410.228.1000 water moves us 2 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide DEAR FRIENDS:

rom musicians and abolitionists to scientists and statesmen, African-American Marylanders F have made indelible contributions to the history and culture of our great State. Starting with Maryland’s very founding and carrying through to today, their impact has been felt around the State, across the country and even overseas. I invite you to use this guide filled with Maryland stories of struggle, pride and triumph.

Begin your journey in Southern Maryland to learn of Mathias de Sousa, a man of African descent and one of Maryland’s founding colonists. De Sousa arrived in 1634 as an indentured servant but became a member of the state’s governing body as a free man.

Historic Stagg Hall Travel the Eastern Shore on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and discover the stories of brave people who risked their lives to escape the bonds of slavery. Learn more about this time in our history with a visit to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Dorchester County. Witness Tubman’s remarkable courage as she made her perilous trek, then returned to bring Located along the Potomac and Patuxent others into the light of liberty, earning the name “The Moses of Her People.” In addition, Maryland’s Network to Freedom sites tell the stories of countless other heroes as well as significant events linked Rivers, Charles County is a history buff’s oasis to the struggle for freedom. with sites and homes dating back before the American Revolution. Over 4,000 acres In Annapolis, Baltimore and Easton, uncover the story of the legendary abolitionist and statesman Washington, D.C. Frederick Douglass. In Oella, learn more about the life of Benjamin Banneker — an early American of parks and open spaces offer the perfect scientist, astronomer, and abolitionist — and his contributions to the design of our nation’s capital. In Bethesda, see the cabin of Josiah Henson whose memoirs inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel place to let your imagination run wild and Charles connect with history alongside nature. County Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Further west, in Sharpsburg, visit Tolson’s Chapel and its cemetery dating back to the 1800s.

For more unique experience information, Jazz legends Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway and Eubie Blake made their home in Baltimore. Today, you connect with us! can learn more about the city’s African American heritage at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, as well as the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, which is ExploreCharlesCounty.com the largest museum of its kind on the East Coast. Visit the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime ExploreCharlesCounty @ExploreCharlesC Park and Museum in historic Fells Point, which shines a light on African-American contributions to our Richmond maritime history. #ExploreCharlesCounty I invite you to use this guide and visitmaryland.org along with Destination Maryland to plan your trip to Maryland. You’ll find great food, vibrant cities, scenic beauty, rich history and warm, wonderful people along your way.

Sincerely,

Larry Hogan Governor

Charles County Dept. of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism • 8190 Port Tobacco Road, Port Tobacco, Maryland BANNEKER DOUGLASS MUSEUM Annapolis FREDERICK CONTENTS DOUGLASS 01 Governor’s Message 04 Discover an Enduring Heritage See The long journey of See the Talbot County 06 Enjoy a Thriving Cultural Legacy MAP Frederick Douglass sites that formed one of 07 Step Back in Time in back of from enslavement to the greatest 19th century guide 08 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway international fame as Americans in four self- 09 Regional Attractions abolitionist, author, and guided driving tours. You’ll statesman began in Talbot pass through picturesque 36 Programs County on Maryland’s towns and historic farms on Eastern Shore. the way to understanding more about this man.

what is possible for me GOVERNOR MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Listings with this symbol are a part of Larry Hogan OFFICE OF TOURISM the ’s National World Trade Center is possible for you LT. GOVERNOR 401 East Underground Railroad Network to Boyd K. Rutherford Baltimore, MD 21202 Freedom program, which documents, preserves and 410-767-3400, 1-877-209-5883 commemorates the stories, people, places and historical www.visitmaryland.org significance of the Underground Railroad and this time in MANAGING EDITOR American history for generations today and in the future. Brian Michael Lawrence www.nps.gov/ugrr EXECUTIVE EDITOR Anne Kyle A special thank you to the Library of Congress for GRAPHIC DESIGNER historic images. John Bright

Maryland’s African-American Heritage Travel Guide is time, but is subject to change. Please call ahead to verify produced and distributed as a free publication by the information before traveling. The publisher and editor Maryland Office of Tourism, an office of the Maryland shall not be liable for damages arising from errors or Department of Commerce. omissions. Articles, advertisements and listings are intended as a Copyright 2019. Reproduction in whole or part of any free mobile driving tours service to travelers and do not constitute an endorsement photographs, maps or illustrations without prior written EASTON • OXFORD • ST. MICHAELS by the state of Maryland of any business, organization or consent by the copyright holders is prohibited. for phone, tablet and desktop at TILGHMAN ISLAND attraction. Information is as correct as possible at press FrederickDouglassBirthplace.org 410-770-8000 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 5 Honor the past while celebrating Festivals in the present. Maryland hosts a number of ethnic events and celebrations of African-American pride and heritage. The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival, held annually in Annapolis each September, features music, food and dance from the African diaspora. Baltimore’s Afram Festival, a weekend- long mix of music, food and exhibits, draws thousands of visitors every year. Other events honor Harriet Tubman in Cambridge and Juneteenth celebrations take place throughout the state. DISCOVER AN ENDURING For a Maryland Calendar of Events, go to www.visitmaryland.org.

Relax while shopping and dining on the HERITAGE waterfront, in the countryside or downtown. Shop & Dine Charming boutiques, galleries and collectibles shops give way to name-brand outlet centers and upscale malls. Antiques stores are also plentiful. For your dining pleasure, the state is home to some of the best seafood around. But beyond the crabs, oysters and Steeped in tradition and rich in diversity, Maryland is truly reflective of the rockfish, you will enjoy international cuisine and soul food, as well as farm-to-table produce and sumptuous desserts, colors and complexities of the great people who have called it home. including the official state dessert, Smith Island Cake. Furthermore, Maryland has many breweries, distilleries and wineries open for tours and special events. This guide is your passport to the Maryland Inside this guide, you will find listings for African-American experience — the travel destinations and programs throughout undertakings, accomplishments and sacrifices, the state that are linked to African-American past and present, that have shaped a state and heritage and culture. The listings are separated influenced a nation. It’s the story of a resilient by region — from Western Maryland to the Maryland offers the perfect location for people and their deeply rooted traditions. It’s Eastern Shore — so you can easily find sites no Reunions your next reunion, regardless of the size. a tale of triumphs, sorrows, joys and hardships matter where your travels take you. At Maryland’s heart is Baltimore, the second-largest as spoken by Frederick Douglass, written by As you navigate Maryland — whether following immigration point-of-entry to the in the late Frances E.W. Harper, played by Eubie Blake a byway toward historic discoveries, sampling 19th and early 20th centuries. African American, Greek, and mapped by Benjamin Banneker. Their local foods during ethnic celebrations or German, Italian, Polish and other ethnic neighborhoods words and deeds, as well as the actions of enjoying the arts at world-renowned cultural stand side by side. Throughout Maryland, you’ll find countless others, continue to impact all venues — experience today what generations diverse destinations, attractions and accommodations to walks of life. have built. make your next get-together a memorable one.

For resources to help plan a reunion, contact local county tourism offices or go towww.visitmaryland.org.

6 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 7 THE REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM OF MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE Baltimore

ALEX HALEY MEMORIAL KENNEDY FARM HOUSE (JOHN BROWN HQ) Annapolis Sharpsburg

ENJOY A THRIVING CULTURAL LEGACY STEP BACK IN

THE NATIONAL GREAT BLACKS IN WAX MUSEUM TIME Baltimore Some of the most memorable African-American entertainment venues in the area, in a nod to the cultural attractions in the country are in Maryland, neighborhood’s roots. Further south, enjoy the and it all begins with our biggest city, Baltimore. waterfront views from the Frederick Douglass- Here, you will find museums, parks and other Isaac Myers Maritime Park while learning about From the rugged mountains of Western 1854 and freed more than 700 Africans as the destinations celebrating the likes of Mother Mary the nation’s first black-owned shipyard. Maryland to the rushing waters of the Potomac flagship of the U.S. African Squadron. Lange and music legends Eubie Blake, Chick In Oella, near Ellicott City, the 142-acre River, across the magnificent Webb and Cab Calloway. Throughout the capital city of Annapolis, Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum to the most charming Eastern Shore towns, statues and memorials honor such celebrated View works by contemporary African-American has nature that surround a museum you can uncover compelling stories of the African Americans as Supreme Court Justice artists at The or the featuring exhibits recounting Banneker’s life people and places that helped shape life for Thurgood Marshall, North Pole explorer Maryland Historical Society Museum, which as a scientist, astronomer and mathematician. African Americans. Matthew Henson, pioneering medical doctor also displays rare portraits by Baltimorean Another museum — in Maryland’s capital, Begin at an unassuming farmhouse near Aris T. Allen and Roots author Alex Haley. Joshua Johnson. The National Great Blacks in Annapolis — is named for Banneker and fellow the Antietam National Battlefield, where Near the Haley statue, situated on the historic Wax Museum takes visitors on a unique journey Marylander Frederick Douglass, a former slave abolitionist John Brown prepared for his City Dock, is a tribute to one of the writer’s with lifelike exhibits spanning centuries. Then who gained audiences with ill-fated, pre-Civil War raid of Harpers Ferry. ancestors, Kunta Kinte, who arrived there visit the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland and other political leaders. From there, move closer to Washington, aboard a slave ship. The Annapolis area is also African American History & Culture. Just a short You can also travel back 350 years via the African- D.C., where many sites in Maryland’s home to historic schoolhouses, as well as the walk from Baltimore’s famous , American Heritage Society Museum in La Plata or Capital Region — such as reconstructed Banneker-Douglass Museum. the museum has an acclaimed permanent take a trip on the Harriet Tubman Underground slave quarters at an archaeological park in collection that focuses on Maryland’s African- Railroad Byway, an All-American Road that winds Mitchellville — remain as testaments to the American experience. through water-laced landscapes. early sacrifices of African Americans. The Baltimore National Heritage Area offers Venture into Baltimore and you will discover walking tours of the two-mile Pennsylvania museums, historic churches, a maritime park Avenue Heritage , along which storyboard and other important destinations with African panels speak to the area’s jazz history and its American ties throughout history. Docked at role in the Civil Rights movement. The newly the city’s world-famous Inner Harbor is the designated Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts Learn about more ways to discover USS Constellation, which was launched in Josiah Henson Park in North Bethesda and Entertainment District aims to promote Maryland’s African-American culture and and support African American artists and heritage at www.visitmaryland.org.

8 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 9 HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD BYWAY Allegany County (ALL) Garrett County (GAR) Washington County (WAS)

Having escaped slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM IN CAMBRIDGE became a celebrated “conductor” on the Tour the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, an Underground Railroad, which was a secret network of Arts & Entertainment District known today for its vibrant ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD • Sharpsburg trails, waterways and sanctuaries used by enslaved downtown. Before venturing inside the museum, people seeking freedom. Today, you can experience snap a picture of the stunning Harriet Tubman mural The letter-number code this landscape by traveling the Harriet Tubman outside the building, painted by local artist Michael listed beside each Underground Railroad Byway. The byway provides Rosato. Then explore the town’s restored buildings destination refers to the many opportunities to bike, get out on the water, or fold-out map inside the and homes, including Cambridge House, a bed back cover. stop in towns that offer ample opportunities to shop and breakfast in an 1840s sea captain’s manor. and dine along the 125-mile long, self-guided driving tour with a downloadable audio guide and mobile CHOPTANK LANDING AND WEBB CABIN in 1827. James W.C. Pennington app. Be sure not to miss these places along the way. Big Pool WAS A-10 Shawnee Oldfield Village In Preston, explore Choptank Landing, near the 13 Canal St, 21502 described his life at Rockland and his dramatic escape in his plantation from which Tubman escaped and then Fort Frederick State Park 301-722-8226 1849 autobiography, The Fugitive risked capture by returning to first lead her brothers 11000 Ft Frederick Rd, 21711 Shawnee Indians once lived in Blacksmith. Pennington became 301-842-2155, 1-800-830-3974 There was one of two things I had a right to, to freedom and later to rescue her parents. Be sure the hills surrounding Oldtown, a powerful Presbyterian liberty or . If I could not have one, I would to visit the Webb Cabin, which was built in 1852 by A free and wealthy African near the confluence of the minister, abolitionist, civil have the other. —Harriet Tubman James Webb, a free African-American farmer. The American named Nathan Williams North and South branches of rights activist and Underground cabin depicts the living conditions of both free and once owned the land that the . From about Railroad agent. Built in 1803, enslaved blacks on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. now houses this park. Witness 1711-1727, Shawnees living at King the site is now a wedding and military re-enactments and daily Opessa’s Town and neighboring events center and may be HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND SITES IN DENTON living history programming at sites offered refuge to freedom viewed from the main road. RAILROAD STATE PARK the fort that once protected seekers who had fled from Visit Courthouse Square in Denton, where slave rocklandweddingand Discover landscapes in the area where Harriet Maryland’s colonial frontier. Virginia and Maryland. Frustrated auctions were held. People were jailed here events.com Tubman was born and labored in slavery. The dnr.maryland.gov/ governors of both states sought when captured while fleeing the bonds of slavery. to negotiate with the Shawnee park’s visitor center, which houses exhibits about publiclands/Pages/western/ Grantsville GAR A-3 Nearby, don’t miss the Adkins Arboretum’s to return the runaways. Virginia Tubman’s life and legacy, is the best place to begin fortfrederick.aspx program “A Journey Begins: Nature’s Role in offered bounties of guns and your journey along the byway. Adjacent is the Negro Mountain the Flight to Freedom,” an audio tour of the blankets. Today the village Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, where vast Cumberland ALL A-6 Alt US 40 & Zehner Rd, 21536 arboretum’s 400 acres of forests and wetlands. site is a forested area located 301-895-5759 watery landscapes and deep forests are evocative within the Chesapeake and of those of Tubman’s time and provide context So set aside an afternoon or an entire weekend and Emmanuel Parish Canal National Historical Park. Believed to have been for the environs in which she lived her life. let these historically and culturally rich landscapes 16 Washington St, 21502 nps.gov/choh/index.htm named after Nemesis, an transport you back to an Eastern Shore of the past. 301-777-3364 enslaved black frontiersman, who killed fighting Indians BRODESS FARM AND BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE Using the former defense tunnels Fairplay WAS B-10 with Maryland frontiersmen. of Fort Cumberland under the Drive down Greenbrier Road in Cambridge Accessible by backcountry hiking. for a glimpse of the privately owned Brodess church, oral history tells us that Samuel Denson and Rev. Rockland hmdb.org/marker. Farm, Tubman’s childhood homesite. Along David Hillhouse Buel provided 9030 Sharpsburg Pike, asp?marker=5409 the way, stop in the Bucktown Village Store food and aid to Underground 21733 • 301-582-5826 To explore the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad where Tubman took a nearly fatal blow to the Railroad freedom seekers. Byway, a self-guided driving tour map and guide and audio One of the most prominent head while assisting an enslaved man. Nearby, emmanuelparish.ang-md.org African American leaders of the tour are available by calling 1-800-522-TOUR (8686) or Blackwater Adventures rents kayaks, canoes and 19th century escaped from here bikes to explore the byway and water trails. going online to www.harriettubmanbyway.org

10 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 11 Hagerstown WAS A-11 Sharpsburg WAS C-11 thriving plantation that used enslaved and free black labor. Records show that runaways CAPITAL Asbury United Antietam Furnace from here were taken to the Methodist Church Harper’s Ferry Rd, 21782 Hagerstown jail. A $200 bounty 155 N Jonathan St, 21740 301-739-4200 REGION was paid for capturing five 301-791-0495 Built in 1768, the furnace enslaved persons from here. Frederick County (FRE) Founded in 1818, the produced goods for the nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/ Montgomery County (MON) oldest African-American Revolutionary War, relying on ferry-hill-place.htm Prince George’s County (PRG) church in Hagerstown. the labor of both enslaved umc.org/find-a-church/ and free blacks. National Kennedy Farm House church/79908 Register of Historic Places. (John Brown HQ) https://tinyurl.com/yypcfqes 2406 Chestnut Grove Doleman Black Rd, 21782 Heritage Museum Antietam National 202-537-8900 540 N Locust St, 21740 Battlefield Old farmhouse that served as a 301-797-5019 Rt 65 & Sharpsburg Pike, staging area for John Brown’s RILEY FARM/JOSIAH HENSON PARK • North Bethesda 5831 Dunker Church Rd, 21782 Collection of black history pre-Civil War raid on a federal The letter-number code 301-432-5124 listed beside each artifacts and books depict the arsenal in Harpers Ferry. destination refers to the lives of local African Americans; Site of the bloodiest one-day johnbrown.org fold-out map inside the dolls, souvenir buttons, battle in American history. Many back cover. WWII memorabilia. view this battle as the turning Tolson’s Chapel dolemanblack point needed for Abraham 111 E High St, 21782 heritagemuseum.org Lincoln to announce the Founded in 1866, Tolson’s Chapel Aspen Hill MON E-15 Queen’s Chapel Methodist Blacksox Park Emancipation Proclamation. Episcopal Church Site 2201 Mitchellville Rd, 20716 Offers interpretive programs, was a Methodist Church built on Miller House land donated by the Craig family. Matthew Henson State Park and Cemetery 301-809-3011 tours and audio-visual programs. 7410 Old Muirkirk Rd, 20705 135 W Washington St, 21740 John Tolson was the church’s first The park was once home of nps.gov/anti Veirs Mill Rd to 301-937-7122 301-797-8782 minister. A Freedman’s Bureau Connecticut Ave, 20906 the Mitchellville Tigers and School operated in the church The site of the original church, a Features a Civil War room, C&O Ferry Hill Plantation the Washington Blacksox, from 1868 to 1870. The cemetery Park named after the Nanjemoy, small log chapel, was purchased Canal room and an extensive 16500 Shepherdstown two local African-American has burials dating back to the Maryland native and first man to by six black men in 1868. The local research library devoted Pike, C&O Canal National reach the North Pole. It offers a sandlot baseball teams. The 19th century. land had been previously lot was a popular game site for to local history and genealogy. Historical Park, 21782 paved hiker/biker trail through used as a cemetery by African https://washcohistory. 301-582-0813 https://tolsonschapel.org/ the Rock Creek valley, which several other African-American Americans in the Muirkirk area. sandlot teams. The 70-acre org/miller-house/ On the C&O Canal and Potomac links to the Rock Creek Trail and The original chapel has been Trail. park, primarily designed for River, both major thoroughfares replaced twice and is known baseball and softball, has montgomeryparks.org/parks- for freedom seekers heading as an anchor of the Rossville interpretive exhibits. and-trails/matthew-henson- community. North, Ferry Hill was once a cityofbowie.org/ state-stream-valley-park umc.org/find-a-church/ facilities/facility/details/ church/79862 Beltsville PRG F-16 Blacksox-Park-3 Bowie PRG F-17 Abraham Hall Boyds MON E-14 7612 Old Muirkirk Rd, 20705 Belair Mansion CPL. WILLIAM OTHELLO WILSON Boyds Negro School House 301-454-1780 12207 Tulip Grove 19510 White Ground Rd, 20841 Dr, 20715 Built in 1889, it is the county’s 301-461-4646 most outstanding example 301-809-3089 (1867–1928) received a Congressional Medal of A restored one-room of a late 19th-century African For more than 100 years, the schoolhouse (1896-1936) Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, for American benevolent society Ogle and Tasker families living complete with furnishings and lodge. It has also served the at Belair Mansion struggled to bravery after volunteering for a courier mission literature on the school and Rossville’s African-American keep their enslaved people community. The school was the during the Sioux Campaign in 1890. The Hagerstown community as a temporary from running away. A featured For a Maryland Calendar only public school for African Black Valor schoolhouse and Methodist exhibit “African-American Slaves resident is the subject of a book titled of Events, go to Americans in the area. and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. www.visitmaryland.org Church. The site hosts at Belair,” tells the stories of exhibitions. resistance and flight. Groups boydshistory.org/Boyds_ pgparks.com/3004/ of 10 or more by appointment. Negro_School.html Abraham-Hall Donation requested. cityofbowie.org/288/ Belair-Manson

12 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 13 Brunswick FRE D-12 economy, the British offered of Frederick acquired the burial Marietta House Museum I think I’m the first man freedom to the enslaved African ground in 1950 and placed a 5626 Bell Station, 20769 to sit on top of the world. Americans. None of the freedom park on the site. Among those Brunswick Railroad Museum 301-464-5291 “ —Matthew Henson seekers were recaptured. buried here are six Civil War 40 W Potomac St, 21716 The lure of Washington, D.C., ” nps.gov/fowa veterans who served in colored 301-834-7100 regiments. In 1999, protests were with its significant free black Exhibits feature the contributions Frederick FRE C-13 responsible for the successful population and ample hiding MATTHEW HENSON of African Americans to the change from park to memorial. places tempted nearby enslaved people to escape. Between development of the B&O African American History https://www.visitfrederick. Railroad in Brunswick. Walking Tour org/listing/laboring-sons- 1814 and 1859, three slaves fled brunswickmuseum.org 121 South Bentz St, 21701 memorial-ground/286/ Marietta House, the plantation (1866–1955), recognized on a plaque at the 301-663-1188 home of Associate Justice of as “co-discoverer of the North Pole,” was born in the Southern National Museum of the Supreme Court Gabriel Clinton PRG H-16 Learn about some of the county’s Maryland town of Nanjemoy. Orphaned when not yet a teen, Civil War Medicine Duvall. Judge Duvall wrote the Matthew Henson worked on merchant ships as a cabin boy and outstanding sites, people and 48 E Patrick St, 21701 Supreme Court opinion that Poplar Hill on His events through a tour of the local slaves could testify in court. learned to read and write while sailing around the world. As part Lordship’s Kindness 301-695-1864, 1-800-564-1864 African-American community’s pgparks.com/3072/Mar- of an Arctic expedition in 1909, he reached the North Pole about 7606 Woodyard Rd, 20735 Immersion exhibits illustrate the historical, cultural and civic ietta-House-Museum 45 minutes ahead of his colleague, Admiral Robert E. Peary. 301-856-0358 center. 90-minute tours start at story of patients, caregivers and Originally part of a land grant the Roger Brooke Taney House medical innovations of the Civil War; includes a rare collection of Landover PRG F-16 from Charles Calvert, third Lord in Downtown Frederick. frederickhistory.org/programs Civil War medical artifacts. Guided Baltimore, to Colonel Henry tours, educational programs. The Wayne K. Curry Sports in 1703. Programs and tours and Learning Complex describe the site’s enslaved Best Farm – CivilWarMed.org 8001 Sheriff Rd, 20785 motivations for escaping from African Americans and their L’Hermitage 301-583-2300 Laurel PRG E-16 4801 Urbana Pike, 21704 Germantown MON E-13 slavery, particularly the fear of families who remained in the being sold away from one’s area following emancipation. 301-662-3513 Named after Prince George’s St. Mark’s Methodist County’s first African-American family and loved ones. Several of The current mansion was built The farm, now part of Monocacy Button Farm Living Episcopal Church the escapes were triggered by County Executive, the complex between 1785 and 1787 by National Battlefield, was once History Center 601 8th St, 20707 the slave owner’s sale of other is dedicated to improving Colonel Henry’s great grandson, part of a 748-acre plantation 16820 Black Rock Rd, 20874 301-776-8885 family members. The site is a the community’s fitness and Robert Darnall, replacing an known as L’Hermitage. 301-916-7090 private residence on Glissans educational needs. Since 1921, the church has been earlier residence constructed Established by the Vincendieres, Maryland’s only living history Mill Road near Linganore. It pgsportsandlearn.com a landmark of Laurel. The history is not open to the public. for his father, Henry Darnall III. a family of French planters from center depicting 19th-century of the congregation dates back poplarhillonhlk.com the Caribbean, this plantation slave plantation life and Largo PRG G-16 to 1891 when James Hebron PRG G-17 was worked by 50 to 90 the heroic story of the and two other black Methodists Mitchellville Fort Washington PRG H-15 African-American indentured Underground Railroad purchased the land for the persons in the 18th and 19th Elizabeth Keckly through unique living church. The church sat across the Holy Family Roman centuries. At least two of those history experiences. Burial Site Catholic Church Mouth of Swan National Harmony street from the Laurel Colored Creek Escape Site slaves fled for freedom. The buttonfarm.org 12010 Woodmore Rd, 20721 Memorial Park, 7101 Sheriff School, which was constructed in Best family began farming the 301-249-2266 property in the 1830s. One of Rd, 20792 • 301-772-0900 1884. Together the two buildings 13551 Fort Washington Rd, Glenn Dale PRG F-16 served many of the residents in Built in 1890 to serve the local their slaves escaped in 1850. 20744 • 301-690-1385 Mrs. Keckly, best known as Laurel’s black community. black Catholic community of then- https://www.nps.gov/ A mass escape of enslaved Dorsey Chapel Mary Todd Lincoln’s seamstress, umc.org/find-a-church/ rural Woodmore and Mitchellville. mono/learn/historyculture/ 10704 Brookland Rd, 20769 worked on behalf of the newly In 1889, the land for the church African Americans occurred off hermitage.html church/79814 Diggs Point at the mouth of Swan 240-264-3415 emancipated enslaved people was deeded to the congregation that sought refuge in the nation’s by Isaac Wood, a local white Creek in early September 1814. Laboring Sons Memorial Ground Built in 1900 as a Methodist Linganore FRE B-14 The group escaped to a moored church, it served as the capital. She devoted herself carpenter. Parishioners, mostly Chapel Aly & 5th St, 21701 to raising funds and collecting African-American tenant British ship that had arrived from 301-600-4047 social and spiritual center Thornton Poole House Alexandria, Virginia, which was of Brookland, an African- donations for their benefit. 13025 Glissans farmers, built the structure. occupied during the . Established in 1851 by the American farming community. She organized the Contraband Mill Rd, 21771 Today, the parish remains In order to undermine the local Beneficial Society of Laboring Relief Association at Union active serving the community. pgelegantsettings. Twelve members of the enslaved Sons of Frederick City, the City com/3154/Dorsey-Chapel Bethel AME Church in 1862 and holyfamilywoodmore.org served as the organization’s Aldridge family escaped from first president. This organization here at various times in the 1850s. William Still, the famous JAMES W.C. PENNINGTON helped expose the need for abolitionist and Underground government involvement in Railroad conductor, recorded (1807-1870) The caring for the contrabands, as the their story in 1857. The Aldridge , a teacher and author most famous for his 1850 autobiography, emancipated enslaved people family’s story expresses the Fugitive Blacksmith. He was born a slave, but fled from a job in Hagerstown in 1827, were also known. settled in Connecticut and became famous for his anti-slavery speeches and writings. nationalharmony.com

14 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 15 ISAAC MYERS

Northampton Slave slave settlement and became an Oxon Hill PRG G-15 Potomac MON F-14 (1835–1891), recognized as a pioneer of the Quarters and abolitionist, speaker and writer. African-American trade union movement, was montgomeryparks.org/parks- Archaeological Park Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Chesapeake and hired in 1855 to supervise one of the largest 10915 Water Port Ct, and-trails/josiah-henson-park Hill Farm/Berry Farm Ohio Canal 20721 • 301-627-1286 shipyards in Baltimore. A decade later, he helped 6411 Oxon Hill Rd, 20745 11710 MacArthur Blvd, establish the Chesapeake Marine Railway and This prominent plantation was N. Brentwood PRG F-16 301-839-1176 20854 • 301-714-2202 home to the Sprigg family and Dry Dock Company and created the Colored National Labor Union, Prince George’s African This site once consisted of Freedom seekers escaped by for which he was elected its first president in 1869. The Frederick their slaves and servants for cash-crop plantations where following the towpath along nearly 200 years. Numerous American Museum and Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore is a national Cultural Center (PGAAMCC) enslaved people provided most the canal before passing into enslaved workers escaped from of the labor. A working farm Pennsylvania, a free state. heritage site with galleries containing images, artistic renderings the site from 1800 through 1836, 4519 Rhode Island Ave, 20722 301-809-0440 offers programs and exhibits John Curry narrated his flight to and historic artifacts. and many African-American on the history of the farm’s freedom from North Carolina to descendants from Northampton Since 2010, PGAAMCC has shared enslaved labor, including Jacob Pennsylvania. Documentation in still reside in Prince George’s incredible and unique stories of Shaw, who escaped from the the form of Runaway Slave ads jailed in Baltimore and could not County. Archaeologists have the African-American experience farm. Visitors can enjoy farm reveal that the canal was used be reclaimed by their master. created a unique research in Prince George’s County animals, a hay barn and daily not only as a transportation route pgparks.com/3023/ Montgomery History: environment that combines through exhibitions, educational chore demonstrations. for fugitives escaping slavery, but Jane C. Sween excavation and archival data Riversdale-House-Museum and public programs; Museum-In- nps.gov/oxhi also as a destination point. Some Research Library with oral histories of the A-Box, Culture Keepers and Early runaway slaves posed as free 42 W Middle Ln, 20850 enslaved and tenant farmers. Rockville MON E-15 Keepers programs; and special St. Paul United Methodist blacks and sought employment in 301-340-2825 pgparks.com/3009/ online content. Church at Oxon Hill constructing the canal as a means Beall-Dawson House Government and family Northampton-Plantation- pgaamcc.org 6634 St Barnabas Rd, 20745 to finance their escape. Slave-Quarters 103 W Montgomery Ave, 20850 records reveal the patterns of 301-567-4433 nps.gov/choh/ 301-340-2825 slaveholding in Montgomery index.htm N. Bethesda MON F-14 Olney MON E-15 Believed to have been home to The Beall family was one of the County and establish the social one of the first African-American largest slave-owning families in and cultural context for the Riverdale Park PRG F-16 Underground Railroad. The Josiah Henson Park Oakley Cabin African American congregations in Prince Montgomery County. When Upton collection includes county 11420 Old Georgetown Rd, Museum and Park George’s County. Beall died in 1827, he left the Cherry Hill Cemetery antebellum tax lists, probate 20910 • 301-299-0071 3610 Brookeville Rd, 20832 stpumcmd.org plantation to his wife who later 301-650-4373 6821 Ingraham St, 20737 records, census records, county Josiah Henson’s autobiography 301-627-1286 passed it to their daughters. The Log home built in the 1820s Poolesville MON E-13 Beall daughters are recognized newspapers with fugitive slave inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s A late 1800s African-American notices, sales of slaves and landmark novel, Uncle Tom’s served as home to enslaved for not selling any slaves. When Warren Historic Site family burial ground. Established other related information. Books, Cabin. He lived and worked as an and free blacks and tenant emancipation was passed in Whites Ferry Rd and in 1884 by Josiah Adams, it is and oral histories enslaved African American from farmers. It was the center of 1864, they sold pieces of their Martinsburg Rd, 20837 significant as the only intact enhance the collections. 1795 to 1830 here on the Riley an African-American roadside lands to their former slaves. community from emancipation 301-258-9021 African-American family farm in https://montgomeryhistory. montgomeryhistory.org/ Farm. The existing building is the area. Graves are marked with jane-c-sween-library well into the 20th century. The Visitors are welcome to drive org/beall-dawson-house/ the late 18th century – early 19th slabs of local ironstone and yucca dwelling, inhabited until 1976, is by at any time. Following the century Riley home with its log plants. Many African-American In Their Steps: A Guided Sandy Spring MON E-15 now a living history museum. Civil War, free blacks and former kitchen wing. Henson describes families — such as the Adams, Walking Tour montgomeryparks.org/ slaves purchased land and built sleeping in a room similar to Becketts, and the Plummers — 29 Courthouse Sq, 20850 The Underground Railroad parks-and-trails/Oakley-cabin- the Warren Methodist Episcopal this one in his memoir. Henson buried their loved ones here from 301-762-0096 Experience Trail african-american-museum- Church, Martinsburg Negro eventually escaped to Canada the late 1800s to the 1940s. 16501 Norwood Rd, 20860 via the Underground Railroad, park School and Charity Lodge Hall. Hear about the life of Josiah hmdb.org/marker. 301-929-5989 where he established a fugitive These buildings were the anchor Henson, the model for the title and center for religious worship, asp?marker=32854 character of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, This trail commemorates educational development and who risked all for freedom Montgomery County residents social interaction for this rural Riversdale House Museum and whose autobiography involved with the Underground African-American community. 4811 Riverdale Rd, 20737 inspired Harriet Beecher Railroad, and celebrates the JOSIAH ADAMS 301-864-0420 warrenhistoricsite.weebly. Stowe. Find out about the Quaker heritage and traditions of com/history.html An elegant early 1800s Federal- young Ann Maria Weems, who Sandy Spring. Learn how fleeing (?–1884) lived and worked primarily as a gardener at style plantation house has been escaped slavery in Rockville slaves eluded capture. This two- Charles Calvert’s plantation, Riversdale, in the mid-19th restored to reflect the lifestyle by dressing as a coachman. mile trail has a natural surface Learn about two sisters from century. Between 1871 and 1883, he accumulated 50 of the Calverts and the story and includes interpretive sign of Adam Francis Plummer, an a prominent Rockville family markers keyed to a map. Find acres of his own land, on which his family operated a enslaved man who brought back who exemplify the differences the map at the Woodlawn Manor fruit and vegetable farm. Adams is laid to rest at Cherry his wife, Emily, and children between slaveholders. trailhead or on the web site. to live in freedom after they peerlessrockville.org montgomeryparks.org/parks- Hill Cemetery, which was established by his will in 1884 escaped from a plantation in and-trails/woodlawn-manor- and accepted burials through the 1940s. Ellicott City. They were caught, cultural-park/underground- railroad-experience-trail-hikes

16 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 17 Sandy Spring Slave Museum of industrial slavery in America. Mount Calvert Historical & African Art Gallery, Inc. The Johnson’s employed some & Archaeological Park CENTRAL 18524 Brooke Rd, 20860 free black labor and were the 16801 Mount Calvert Rd, 301-774-4066 largest slaveholders in Frederick 20772 •301-627-1286 MARYLAND The museum’s campus has County when they operated the Anne Arundel County (AAR) furnace. At least one enslaved Mount Calvert plantation four displays: a cross-section depended upon enslaved Baltimore City (BCI) of a slaving clipper ship, a man attempted escape in 1780. Visitors see the charcoal-fired labor from the 1770s to the Baltimore County (BCO) slavery-era log cabin, an arts end of the Civil War. The site pavilion and great hall. stone furnace, a re-created Carroll County (CAR) casting shed and the ruins of is linked to escaped enslaved sandyspringslave people through advertisements Harford County (HAR) museum.org the manor house. Self-guided walking tour information is placed by different owners. In Howard County (HOW) available at Cunningham Falls 1841, Samuel Berry called for Silver Spring MON F-15 State Park Visitor Center. the return of Dick and Charles Sprigg, and owner John Brookes nps.gov/cato/learn/ Arrest Site of called for the return of his house William Chaplin historyculture/furnace.htm servants Susan and Arianna. Jesup Blair Park, pgparks.com/3007/ THE EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE Georgia Ave & Blair Rd, Upper Marlboro PRG G-17 Mount-Calvert-Historical- AND CULTURE CENTER • Baltimore 20910 • 301-650-4373 and-Archaeologi The letter-number code Croom Airport listed beside each Chaplin, an abolitionist from destination refers to the 16000 Croom Airport Rd, The Charlotte Duckett fold-out map inside the Albany, NY, was involved in the 20772 • 301-627-6074 failed escape of 77 people from Log Cabin at the Patuxent back cover. Washington, D.C. aboard the The first African American Rural Life Museum schooner Pearl in 1848. Eluding owned and operated airport 16000 Croom Airport Rd, imprisonment then, Chaplin was on the eastern seaboard. 20772 • 301-627-6074 captured on August 8, 1850 tc-solutions.com/croom/ Annapolis AAR F-19 Banneker- Historic Annapolis Rare chestnut log tenant farm Douglass Museum Foundation Walking Tours during a desperate shootout with airport/airport.htm house from the 1800s, which was slave catchers on Georgia Ave. Alex Haley Memorial/ 84 Franklin St, 21401 & Museum Store probably built by Charles Duckett, 99 Main St, 21401 in Silver Spring. Both freedom Darnall’s Chance a former slave and a landsman Kunta Kinte Plaque 410-216-6187; seekers he was transporting were House Museum in the Union Navy during the Sidewalk at head of City 410-216-6180 410-267-7619 wounded. Northern abolitionists 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Civil War. It is part of the larger Dock, Compromise St & Located inside the historic Serves as the starting point for raised his bond of $25,000. Dr, 20772 • 301-952-8010 Patuxent Rural Life Museums Market Space, 21401 Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church, the an Acoustiguide self-guided There is an outdoor exhibit complex, which includes the 410-956-9090 exhibit “Deep Roots, Rising walking tour of prominent that describes these events. The museum highlights the Duvall Tool Museum, a tobacco Waters” celebrates African landmarks from Annapolis’ https://www.hmdb.org/ African-American community A life-size bronze statue of and mid-18th-century town life in museum, a blacksmith shop, American life in Maryland. Colonial History, including marker.asp?marker=109230 and a 1923 Sears, Roebuck and Alex Haley, author of the epic Upper Marlboro. Eight enslaved Roots, is situated next to the Exhibits also highlight an African American Tour Company simplex house. people have been recorded plaque honoring his ancestor, the contributions of key highlighting the roles of African Thurmont FRE A-13 as escaping from here. Those pgparks.com/3021/Patuxent- Underground Railroad figures, Americans in shaping the town. Rural-Life-Museums Kunta Kinte; designed by who escaped were William nationally acclaimed African- Harriet Tubman, Frederick annapolis.org Catoctin Iron Furnace and his wife Nancy (1820), Basil Douglass and others. and Manor House Ruins American sculptor Ed Dwight. Duppin, Leander, Camilla Dent, bdmuseum.maryland.gov Maryland State Archives 13102 Catoctin Mountain Louisa and John Dent (1832 to kuntakinte.com Hwy, 21788 • 410-260-8150 Hall of Records, 350 1857) and John Kettle (1860). City Dock Rowe Blvd, 21401 The Johnson Family established pgparks.com/3055/Darnalls- Aris T. Allen Statue Chinquapin Round Rd at 1 Dock St, 21401 410-260-6400; the Iron Furnace in 1776. The Chance-House-Museum 410-263-7973 800-235-4045 site depicts the iron making Aris T. Allen Blvd, 21401 process, which highlights the role 410-263-9591 This Colonial port is believed to Government records, Statue depicts the first African- be the site where Kunta Kinte, newspapers and special American doctor allowed made famous by Alex Haley’s collections provide historical to admit patients at Anne book, Roots, entered the resources specific to Arundel Medical Center. country on the slave ship Lord slavery and freedom in Ligonier. It is now the site of a Maryland. The Archives dcmemorials.com/ CABELL (CAB) CALLOWAY, III waterfront park, Harbormaster’s hosts an interactive website index_indiv0003422.htm office, visitor information booth (www.mdslavery.net) entitled (1907–1994) grew up in Baltimore and frequented many local jazz clubs. and harbor cruise docks. “Beneath the Underground: His band performed regularly at the Cotton Club, and in 1931 he recorded Annapolis.gov/165/ The Flight to Freedom,” the hit, “Minnie the Moocher.” In 1983, the aging jazz and scat legend Harbormaster which focuses on stories of many freedom seekers performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with his grandson, and their accomplices. C. Calloway Brooks, who now directs the Cab Calloway Orchestra. msa.maryland.gov

18 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 19 Maryland State House Matthew Henson Memorial Thurgood Marshall Memorial The Baltimore Museum of Art American soldiers who served Underground Railroad agent 100 State Cir, 21401 The Rotunda, Maryland State Lawyer’s Mall, Maryland 10 Dr, 21218 in every American conflict. Thomas Garrett sent them onto 410-974-3400 House, 100 State Cir, 21401 State House, State House 443-573-1700 theclio.com/entry/9706 and freedom. 410-260-6400 Sq, 21401 • 410-974-3400 aqua.org Built between 1772-1779, this A pioneer in the acquisition A memorial dedicated to This memorial honors the first of works by African-American Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. is the oldest state capitol still Courthouse Emmart-Pierpoint Safe House in continuous legislative use. Matthew Henson, an African- African American Supreme artists including Joshua American explorer who, Court Justice who served for Johnson, Jacob Lawrence 100 N Calvert St, 21202 3523 N Rolling Rd, 21244 It served as the U.S. Capitol 410-333-3722 410-655-7821 from November 1783-August accompanying Admiral Robert E. 24 years. His most famous and Henry Ossawa Tanner. 1784 when the Continental Peary, was the first man to reach court case, Brown v. Board artbma.org Dedicated in honor of a native Oral history says that this Congress met in the Old Senate the North Pole on April 6, 1909. of Education of Topeka, son who became known was a vital station on the Chamber. Many state laws about msa.maryland.gov/ ended racial segregation in Baltimore Museum of Industry as the “101st Senator” for Underground Railroad. slavery, black freedom and the msa/mdstatehouse/ American public schools. 1415 Key Hwy, 21230 his perseverance in getting enjoybaltimorecounty. activities of the Underground html/visitor.html msa.md.gov/msa/ 410-727-4808 Congress to recognize com/play/Find the Constitutional rights Railroad were debated and mdstatehouse/html/ A hands-on museum with of African Americans. passed here. In November The Stanton Center home.html exhibits on the , Free Library 1864, the Maryland Legislature 92 W Washington St, 21401 garment industry, oyster canning baltimorecitycourt.org 400 Cathedral St, 21201 abolished slavery in the state. 410-295-5519 Baltimore BCI C-18 and more. Exhibits explain how 410-396-5430 msa.maryland.gov/ Built in 1898 and listed in a visitor’s ancestor, no matter Dugan’s Wharf One of the oldest and msa/mdstatehouse/ the National Register of Arbutus Memorial Park their station in life, contributed National Aquarium Pier 4, largest public libraries in html/home.html Historic Places, it served as 1101 Sulphur Spring Rd, 21227 to Baltimore’s development. 501 E Pratt St, 21202 the country features an 410-576-8534 the first African-American 410-212-2700 thebmi.org African-American department school in Annapolis. A historical burial ground for On October 21, 1856, Harriet with a comprehensive https://www.annapolis. African Americans such as Bethel AME Church (1785) Tubman helped a young woman collection of historical and gov/491/Stanton- National Baseball Hall of Famer 1300 Druid Hill Ave, 21217 named “Tilly” flee enslavement contemporary materials. Community-Center Leon Day and jazz musician 410-523-4273 in Baltimore. Unable to safely prattllibrary.org bring Tilly to Philadelphia via a Chick Webb. Baltimore’s oldest, independent route out of Baltimore, Tubman arbutusmemorialpark.com black institution, dating from the The Eubie Blake cleverly devised a scheme to late 18th century. Founded by National Jazz Institute take Tilly south, via a steamboat Arena Players Daniel Payne Coker after he left and Culture Center to Seaford, Delaware. The 801 McCulloh St, 21201 the Methodist church because 847 N Howard St, 21201 steamer docked at Dugan’s None of us got where we are solely by 410-728-6500 of segregated seating. 410-225-3130 Wharf in Baltimore’s Inner Explore the life and music of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. The oldest, continually bethel1.org Harbor, which is now the site of Baltimore musicians Eubie We got here because somebody — a performing, historically black the National Aquarium Marine Blake, Billie Holiday, Cab theater had its humble beginnings Black Soldiers Memorial Statue Mammal Pavilion at Pier 4. Once parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony Calloway and others. in 1953 by a small group of War Memorial Plaza, Holiday the women arrived in Seaford, or a few nuns — bent down and helped aspiring actors. Today the theater & Fayette Sts, 21203 eubieblake.org Tubman and Tilly took the us pick up our boots. is made up of volunteers who 877-BALTIMORE Delaware Railroad to Camden help keep the show running. —Thurgood Marshall Erected in 1972, this nine-foot and eventually found their way arenaplayersinc.com bronze statue is dedicated to Wilmington, Delaware where Baltimore & Ohio to the memory of African- Railroad Museum THURGOOD MARSHALL 901 W Pratt St, 21223 410-752-2490 (1908–1993) Marshall was born and attended school in The museum presents the REGINALD F. LEWIS Baltimore before graduating first in his class from Howard history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company with an University Law School. He was the lead NAACP attorney oral history exhibit that features (1942–1993) built a company that became the largest in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of recorded stories of African- black-owned and managed business in the United States. A Topeka, Kansas, case that overturned the “separate but American porters recalling work and life on the B&O Railroad. Harvard Law School graduate, in 1987, he bought Beatrice equal” doctrine in public school segregation. In 1967, the borail.org International Foods and created TLC Beatrice, a snack food, Baltimore native became the first African American named beverage and grocery store conglomerate. The Baltimore to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is remembered with a native and philanthropist became the first African American memorial in Annapolis by the State House. to create a $1 billion empire.

20 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 21 First Baptist Church Historic Ships Metropolitan United The National Great Blacks baltimore.org/listings/ Sharp Street Memorial 525 N Caroline St, 21205 301 E. Pratt St Pier 1, 21202 Methodist Church (Lafayette in Wax Museum historic-sites/baltimore- United Methodist Church 410-675-2333 410-539-1797 Square Church) 1601-03 E North Ave, 21213 civil-war-museum- Dolphin & Etting Sts, 21217 Organized in 1836 by Moses Launched in 1854, the USS 1121 W Lanvale St, 21217 410-563-3404 president-street-station 410-523-7200 Clayton, a former slave and lay Constellation is the last all-sail 410-523-1366 Nation’s first black history Established in 1787, this was minister, it was Maryland’s first ship built by the U.S. Navy. Large Gothic church with wax museum with more than Reddy Gray Burial Site the first African-American African-American Baptist church. Served in anti-slavery patrol, origins that have been traced 100 life-size wax figures in Loudon Park National Methodist church in the helping to save hundreds to Orchard Street Church historical scenes, including a Cemetery, 3445 Frederick state and is often referred Ave, 21229 Frederick Douglass- of Africans from bondage. founder, Truman Pratt. dramatic exhibit of a slave ship. to as the “Mother Church of 410-644-9696 Isaac Myers Demonstrations and activities. metropolitanumc.org greatblacksinwax.org African-American Methodism.” Maritime Park Complimentary audio tours daily. The Loudon Park National The National Association Orchard Street Church/ 1417 Thames St, 21231 historicships.org Mother Mary Lange Cemetery is the final resting for the Advancement of Baltimore Urban League 410-685-0295, ext 252 Monument place for Reddy Gray, a former Colored People, during its 610 George St, 21227 512 Orchard St, 21201 slave, who escaped slavery formative years, held their The park chronicles the saga James E. Lewis 410-523-8150 on the Underground Railroad meetings at the church. of Frederick Douglass’ life in Museum of Art Four-foot monument honors Oral history says this in 1863. Gray was born in Baltimore as an enslaved child Morgan State University, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, umc.org/find-a-church/ was a safe house on the slavery in Baltimore County, the and young man who gained his 2100 Argonne Dr, 21251 founder of the Oblate Sisters church/79724 Underground Railroad, now property of Thomas Cradock freedom. It also explores the 443-885-3030 of Providence, the first order the home of the Greater Risteau. He enlisted with the life of Isaac Myers, a freeborn Named after a former director of African-American nuns. St. Frances Academy Baltimore Urban League. United States Colored Troops African American who became and university professor, the gpsmycity.com/attractions/ 501 E Chase St, 21202 one year after his escape. a national leader. Learn about museum includes permanent mother-mary-lange- baltimoreheritage.org 410-539-5794 Following the war, he worked, the founding of the Chesapeake collections of African art. monument-27286.html Established in 1828, by Mother married and raised a family. His Marine Railway and Dry Dock Pennsylvania Avenue Mary Lange, it is the oldest jelmamuseum.org post-escape life, documented Company and the establishment Mount Auburn Cemetery Heritage Trail continuously operating school in pension and census records, of the African-American Leadenhall Baptist Church 2614 Annapolis Rd, 21230 1528 Pennsylvania Ave, 21217 for black Catholic children defied the stereotype of the community in Baltimore during 1021 Leadenhall St, 21230 410-547-0337 443-984-2369 in the United States and is “helpless freedman.” Upon his the 1800s. 410-752-5191 Along the trail, colorful and still educating children in Founded in 1868, this is the death in 1922, he was buried in Second-oldest African-American informative story signs and Baltimore. It was founded https://livingclassrooms.org/ oldest African American Loudon Park National Cemetery. programs/frederick-douglass- church structure in Baltimore. owned-and-operated cemetery site markers introduce you to to teach “children of color https://www.cem.va.gov/ isaac-myers-maritime-park/ hmdb.org/marker. in Maryland. Among those Baltimore African Americans to read the Bible,” which cems/nchp/loudonpark.asp asp?marker=6358&Result=1 buried here is John Henry that helped build the city, gain was illegal at the time. Heritage Museum of Art Murphy, the founder of the civil rights and change the sfacademy.org Reginald F. Lewis 4509 Prospect Cir, 21216 Maryland Historical Society Afro-American Newspaper. face of American music, art, Museum of Maryland 410-664-6711 201 W. Monument St, 21201 mountauburncemetery.org literature and politics. Guided St. Frances Xavier Church African American 410-685-3750 tours are available May-Oct. 1501 E Oliver St, 21213 Call for info on traveling exhibits. History & Culture explorebaltimore.org/ 410-727-3103 Nonprofit institution preserving Among the society’s many 830 E Pratt St, 21202 Museum House tours/Pennsylvania- and presenting history and exhibits and resources 443-263-1800 The first African-American 1500 Washington Blvd, avenue-heritage-trail culture of various ethnic groups. is the “definitive” Eubie Largest African-American Catholic community in Blake collection. 21230 • 410-837-3262 the country, it was co- President Street museum on the East Coast mdhs.org Maryland’s finest example founded in 1793. Station/Baltimore features exhibits, programming, of a Georgian estate and kids’ activities, genealogy josephites.org/parish/md/sfx Baltimore’s oldest house. Once Civil War Museum 601 President St, 21202 resource center and soul food an 800-acre agricultural and café. Smithsonian affiliate. industrial complex, hundreds 410-461-9377; of enslaved people labored 410-396-1954 lewismuseum.org here. At least four fled. This station was part of the National Historic Landmark. Baltimore, Philadelphia and mountclare.org Wilmington Railroad, which MOTHER MARY ELIZABETH LANGE became part of an ambitious Underground Railroad network (1784–1882) founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the (1923–1997) was a sculptor and Chair of whose activists in those cities JAMES E. LEWIS and beyond secured passage world’s first African-American Roman Catholic order. The the Morgan State University Art Department. The gallery he established for freedom seekers. Like order opened a Catholic school for girls, thus beginning St. on campus in 1951 contains a renowned collection of African and Frederick Douglass, many carried forged freedom passes Frances Academy, the oldest continuously operating school African-American art. Among many works sculpted by Lewis is the Black or, like Harriet Eglin, wore for black Catholic children in the United States. Soldiers Memorial Statue (at left) outside City Hall in Baltimore. disguises. Learn about freedom seekers who rode the train.

22 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 23 Pennsylvania, Parker became ellicottcity.net/tourism/ Collins was held here famous as the leader of the attractions/heritage_ while awaiting trial for inciting Christiana Resistance of 1851, a orientation_center/ an insurrection among people of BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731–1806), a freeborn scientist violent confrontation between color. Richard Martin was held and mathematician, who grew up on a farm near Ellicott City, black and white abolitionists Howard County as a fugitive without a pass. and a Maryland slaveholder Historical Society helped conduct a 1791 survey of the land that would become intent on recapturing a local 9421 Frederick Rd, 21042 Howard County Washington, D.C. He also published six almanacs, filled with runaway. The slaveholder was 410-840-3250 Courthouse 1843 left dead. Today, Roedown 8360 Ct Ave, 21043 information on tides and eclipses, which he calculated himself. Archives and 410-313-2111 Farm is privately owned and collections include original not open to the public. source documents, such as The 1843 Howard County court cases dealing with fugitive Courthouse was the location for Ellicott City HOW D-17 slaves and those who aided, judicial proceedings for cases of abetted and enticed runaways. those charged with encouraging The Star-Spangled Bel Air HAR B-19 Columbia HOW D-16 Ellicott City Colored School It also includes ledgers and slaves to runaway. The most Banner Flag House 8683 Frederick Rd, 21043 records of slaveholders. The famous case involved the 844 E Pratt St, 21202 Hays-Heighe House Howard County Center of 410-313-5131 documentation identifies transfer of known Underground 410-837-1793 401 Thomas Run Rd, African-American Culture connections between the Railroad agent William L. Private and group tours year- Explores the role of African 21015 • 443-412-2539 5434 Vantage Point Rd, 21044 county’s prominent slaveholders Chaplin of New York from 410-715-1921 round. Restored one-room and court cases presented in Montgomery County to Howard Americans in the early 19th-century In 1860, Sam Archer escaped schoolhouse built in 1880, Baltimore and the War of 1812. enslavement by Thomas Preserving the history of the District Court dealing with County in 1850. An interpretive serves as living history museum/ escaped slaves. The repository marker describes these events. flaghouse.org Hays on this property. Archer African-American culture in African-American genealogical escaped to Pennsylvania, Howard County. The center is crucial for recounting the mdcourts.gov/circuit/howard resource center. First publicly history of those attempting Thurgood Marshall Statue and his experiences are includes more than 4,000 funded school in the county for Edward A. Garmantz Building documented by William Still books, a children’s library, and to flee bondage as well as African-American children. the fate of those who were and U.S. Courthouse, Pratt in his book, The Underground a research and reading library. Fulton HOW D-16 ellicottcity.net/tourism/ tried in the court system. & Sharp Sts, 21201 Railroad. Archer Hays built the hccaac.org attractions/ellicott_ hchsmd.org African Art Museum Statue honors Baltimore dwelling in 1808, and Thomas city_colored_school/ Archer Hays, Sr. inherited this Darlington HAR A-20 Howard County Jail of Maryland native and first African- 11711 E Market Pl, 20759 American Supreme Court farm and his father’s chattel, Howard County 1 Emory St, 21043 including his enslaved Africans. 301-490-6070 Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Hosanna School Museum First Courthouse Site Runaway slaves and those baltimoremd.com/ harford.edu/community/ 2424 Castleton Rd, 21034 Ellicott Mills Dr at charged with encouraging the A collection exhibiting and monuments/thurgood.html hays-heighe-house 410-457-4161 Main St, 21043 enslaved to escape or rise up preserving the art of . The first of three schools to 410-313-4401 against their masters were africanartmuseum.org Union Baptist Church Catonsville BCO D-17 be built in Harford County The first Howard County held in the county jail. Augusta 1219 Druid Hill Ave, 21217 in 1867 by the Freedmen’s Courthouse was located in the Spriggs was held here, while 410-523-6880 Oblate Sisters of Bureau. The building of schools historic district of Ellicott City. ads for her master in Prince Became the central point in the Mount Providence was mandated by state law It housed judicial proceedings George’s County were posted struggle for civil rights, thanks 701 Gun Rd, 21227 across all of the former slave- of the new Howard district, for him to claim her. Free Black to the efforts of its leader, the 410-242-8500 holding states for the purpose including those involving of educating the recently Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson. Founded in 1828, the Oblate enslaved runaways and those freed African Americans. unionbaptistmd.org/ Sisters of Mount Providence inciting insurrection. This The property was originally contact_us.aspx were the first successful Roman structure was rented from owned by a free African- JAMES HUBERT “EUBIE” BLAKE Catholic sisterhood established 1840 through 1842, while a American man, Paca. The by women of African descent. permanent courthouse was (1883–1983), a legendary ragtime composer and performer, 600 N Charles St, 21201 Elizabeth Lange (later Mother hosannaschool being constructed. Cases 410-547-9000 Mary Lange) and Maria Balas museum.org related to enslaved people started playing the organ at age five; by age 15, he was started a school, St. Francis include those of Jacob Madden dazzling audiences at brothels, clubs and saloons in Home to Charles Henri- Davidsonville AAR F-17 and William Williams for Joseph Cordier’s bronze and Academy, to teach and care his Baltimore hometown. In 1915, he teamed up with for African-American children. circulating publications that gold sculpture of an African vocalist Noble Sissle on the 1921 opus “Shuffle oblatesisters.com created discontent among woman visiting in 1851 Roedown Farm the black population. Another (African ), one of the Along” — one of the first musicals to be written, 3856 Wayson Rd, 21035 case involved four slaves produced and directed by African Americans. Blake museum’s best-known items. belonging to Charles D. Warfield thewalters.org Born enslaved in the early composed hits such as “I’m Just Wild About Harry” 1820s at Roedown, William who fled from their master to Parker later made a daring Pennsylvania. The courthouse is and “Memories of You,” and in 1981 received the escape at age 17. Settling in no longer standing. Medal of Freedom.

24 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 25 Highland Beach AAR F-18 on America’s first African- Towson BCO C-18 American man of science. Frederick Douglass baltimorecountymd.gov/ Hampton National Museum and Cultural Agencies/recreation/ Historic Site SOUTHERN Center “Twin Oaks” countyparks/most- 535 Hampton Ln, 21286 3200 Wayman Ave, 21403 popular/Banneker 410-823-1309 MARYLAND 410-268-2956 Mount Gilboa AME Church Hampton was the heart of Calvert County (CAL) This summer cottage built for 2312 Westchester Ave, 21228 a 25,000-acre commercial, Frederick Douglass in 1895 410-461-6599 industrial and agricultural Charles County (CHR) serves as a memorial to him that estate supported by indentured St. Mary’s County (STM) preserves and displays exhibits Located near his homestead, and enslaved labor. Family related to his family and the scientist Benjamin Banneker records reveal attempts by history of the community. was thought to have worshipped enslaved people to flee from at this site before the current highlandbeachmd.org Hampton. African-American chapel was completed in life, labor and resistance is 1860. It is also the site of the Highland Beach Community interpreted throughout the Benjamin Banneker Obelisk and 3200 Wayman Ave, 21403 site including slave quarters, the oldest African-American 410-267-6960 post Civil War tenant farmers’ church in Baltimore County. quarters, landscapes and Originally planned as an HISTORIC ST. MARY’S CITY • St. Mary’s City mtgilboa.org/index.html other cultural resources. The letter-number code exclusive vacation destination nps.gov/hamp listed beside each for African-American families in Perry Point HAR B-21 destination refers to the 1893, it later became the first fold-out map inside the Verona BCO A-17 back cover. incorporated African-American Perryville Railroad Ferry township in Maryland in 1922. and Station Site highlandbeachmd.org Gorsuch Tavern Perry Point VA Medical 15910 York Rd, 21152 Center, 21902 410-887-3495 Chesapeake Jarrettsville HAR B-18 410-949-1003 Dameron STM L-19 Hollywood STM K-18 In 1851, Gorsuch relatives Beach CAL H-18 The Philadelphia, Wilmington gathered to attempt to capture Rock Run Grist Mill and Baltimore Railroad Steam St. Edmond’s United St. ’s Hall Sotterley Plantation enslaved African Americans 17765 Three Notch Rd, 20628 44300 Sotterley Susquehanna State Park, Ferry Landing site at the that had fled to Pennsylvania Methodist Church 301-872-4566 Ln, 20636 3318 Rocks Chrome Hill Rd, mouth of the Susquehanna from Edward Gorsuch’s Retreat 3000 Dalrymple Rd, 20732 301-373-2280 21084 • 410-557-7994 River was used for numerous Farm. The site commemorates 410-257-7311 Built in 1885 by the local chapter 1-800-681-0850 Stone mill with 12-ton water famous and lesser known a significant escape from of the Knights of St. Jerome, Underground Railroad escapes, Served the African-American wheel. Oral history says it was enslavement and the master’s community as a school and the oldest Catholic fraternal The plantation has an 1830s used by those escaping from as well as a kidnapping and effort to recapture his organization in the Archdiocese slave cabin that exemplifies rescue of a free Pennsylvanian. church beginning in 1857. Burned slavery via the Underground bondsmen by force. With the in 1893. The present building of Washington. In the late typical slave housing in the Railroad as a place to Frederick Douglass escaped aid of the U.S. Deputy Marshall, 1880s, the hall served as the Tidewater region. The history on this railroad in 1838. dates from 1970. pick up provisions before the Gorsuch party tracked umc.org/find-a-church/ first parochial school for black of slavery at Sotterley is told continuing their journey. history.amtrak.com/blogs/ them down to Christiana, children in St. Mary’s County. through the cabin and related church/79746 dnr.state.md.us/ blog/exploring-underground- Pennsylvania. There they artifacts, as well as through the railroad-heritage-sites encountered armed resistance, story of the Kane family that lived publiclands/pages/central/ STM L-17 Susquehanna.aspx led by Roedown’s William Coltons Point Drayden STM L-18 on the plantation. Sykesville CAR C-16 Parker, to take the freedom sotterley.org seekers back to Maryland. In the St. Clement’s Island- Drayden African-American Oella BCO D-17 Sykesville Colored Schoolhouse ensuing fracas in a farmhouse Potomac River Museum Schoolhouse 518 Schoolhouse Rd, 21784 hideaway, Edward Gorsuch was 38370 Pt Breeze Rd, 20626 18287 Cherryfield Rd, 20630 Benjamin Banneker Historical 410-489-6540 killed and his son was wounded. 301-769-2222 301-994-1471 Park and Museum One-room schoolhouse Not open to the public. Mathias de Sousa, often noted One of the best preserved 300 Oella Ave, 21228 restored to its 1904 appearance hmdb.org/marker. as the first individual of African 410-887-1081 African-American schoolhouses and a repository for artifacts asp?marker=2057 descent to settle in Maryland, in the country. This structure still A 142-acre institution of related to the African American was part of the first group of occupies its original site and has cultural and natural history experience in Carroll County. colonists to land at St. Clement’s not been significantly altered. was the farmstead of the townofsykesville.org/2153/ Island in 1634. The little that co.saint-marys.md.us/ Banneker family. It centers Historic-Colored-Schoolhouse is known about de Sousa is recreate/Draydenschool/ included in the museum’s display. https://www.stmarysmd.com/ recreate/stclementsisland/

26 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 27 Hughesville CHR I-16 Southern Maryland built in 1925, served African- Hospital, where several nurses of Abundance, Season of Want: slave narrative of Charles Ball, Studies Center American students in southern and doctors assisted in the Making a Living from the Waters who fled north to freedom. Two St. Mary’s. Carver graduated its escape of local Maryland of the Patuxent.” Most of the enslaved people from this site Camp Stanton College of Southern last high school class in 1966, freedom seekers. Thousands of oyster house workers were enlisted in the and Prince Frederick Rd, Maryland Library when county schools were freedom seekers from Virginia African Americans, and their became free. The visitors center 20637 Building, Room LR211 8730 Mitchell Rd, 20646 desegregated. It became an and other states found protection work is interpreted in the exhibit. offers exhibits, re-enactments, This former Union encampment 301-934-7626, ext 7107 integrated elementary school and shelter at a contraband calvertmarine events and demonstrations. was established in 1863 for the and then a community center. camp at Point Lookout, located museum.com jefpat.org recruitment and training of black Resources with information on Located in South Hampton, just outside the prisoner of soldiers, some who had recently slavery, freedom and the culture formerly a housing development war camp where United States St. Leonard CAL J-18 STM L-19 escaped enslavement. Now and development of Southern built in the 1940s exclusively Colored Troops were assigned St. Mary’s City Maryland from the colonial empty fields, visitors can travel for African-American civilian to guard Confederate prisoners. Brooks United Methodist an African-American heritage period forward. Historic St. Mary’s City and military employees of the Point Lookout Creek is where on Church & Cemetery Rt 5 & Rosecroft Rd, 20686 paddling trail on the Patuxent csmd.edu/community/southern- Patuxent River Naval Air Station. April 15, 1848 the schooner Pearl, maryland-studies-center/ 5550 Mackall Rd, 20685 240-895-4990; 1-800-762-1634 River to the site, which can also visitstmarysmd.com/sports/ under the command of Daniel 410-586-3972 be viewed from the south side of detail/carver-recreation- Drayton, was captured with A monument to Mathias de The focus of the civic life for Route 231, Prince Frederick Road. Leonardtown STM K-17 center 77 freedom seekers on board. Sousa, the first Marylander https://mht.maryland.gov/ Visit the lighthouse, earthworks, African Americans in the area of African descent, stands at since the 1850s. The cemetery historicalmarkers/Details. Old Jail of St. Mary’s Port Tobacco CHR J-15 and graveyards and Historic St. Mary’s City, the aspx?id=RM-297&recNum=6&c County Museum explore reconstructed barracks includes graves of many Union state’s Colonial capital that ounty=Charles+County Courthouse Dr, 20650 and officer’s quarters. Programs soldiers from the Civil War. now serves as an outdoor 301-475-2467 Port Tobacco offered seasonally. brooksumc.org living history museum. Museum exhibits provide information on CAL I-18 Courthouse dnr.maryland.gov/ Huntingtown Built in 1858, the jail represents de Sousa and Africans in 17th- the fear and despair facing 7215 Chapel Point Rd, publiclands/pages/southern/ Jefferson & Museum century Maryland. Patuxent United freedom seekers whose 20677 • 301-934-4313 pointlookout.aspx 10515 Mackall Rd, 20685 Methodist Church This reconstructed courthouse https://hsmcdigshistory.org/ unsuccessful attempts at freedom 410-586-8557 3500 Solomons Island Rd N, ended here. The jail’s exhibits is where two African Americans Solomons CAL K-19 20639 • 410-535-9819 feature the stories of five runaway were tried for aiding in the Situated on the Patuxent Sunderland CAL I-18 River and St. Leonard Creek, The original church was built incarcerated enslaved people, flight of more than 30 armed and highlights the choices freedom seekers from Southern 14200 Solomons Island Rd, this state museum of history H. Elizabeth Brown in 1883. Burned in 1893. Within and archaeology interprets seven months, the present confronting freedom seekers and Maryland in 1845. 20688 • 410-326-2042 Roadside Marker the struggles they endured. charlescountymd.gov/ the diverse cultures of the MD Rt 2 at Pushaw Station building was erected on the site Museum features collections, Chesapeake Bay region. The and dedicated, debt-free. stmaryshistory.org locations/port-tobacco- exhibits, paleontology, children’s Rd, 20689 courthouse Battle of St. Leonard Creek, a umc.org/find-a-church/ rooms and the Drum Point War of 1812 naval engagement The marker documents a local church/78602 Lexington Park STM K-19 Lighthouse. The nearby J.C. Lore occurred here and is retold in the teacher’s pursuit of equalization Prince Frederick CAL I-18 & Sons Oyster House was built of teacher salaries in Calvert African-American in 1934 and features “Seasons County and throughout Maryland. La Plata CHR I-16 Monument hmdb.org/marker. 21744 S Coral Dr, 20653 Calvert County asp?marker=5573 African-American 301-737-5447 Historical Society Heritage Society Museum Dedicated in 2000 to recognize 70 Church St, 20678 7485 Crain Hwy, 20646 local African American 410-535-2452 301-609-9099 achievements in the arts, Among the society’s special Depicts the life, history and agriculture, business, politics and collections are African- contributions of famous African education. American genealogies and Americans from Charles County https://www.visitstmarysmd. other historical documents. and displays items used during com/site/detail/african- calverthistory.org the time of slavery. american-monument-and- somd.com/catalog/5743.php freedom-park Scotland STM M-19

Carver Community Center (Formerly George & Civil War Museum For a free Maryland Scenic Washington Carver School) 11175 Pt Lookout Rd, 47450 Lincoln Ave, 20653 20687 • 301-872-5688 Byways map, go to Carver Located at the mouth of the www.visitmaryland.org School, built in 1958, and its Potomac River, the park has ties predecessor, Jaboesville School, to the Underground Railroad. Site of the Union’s Hammond

28 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 29 http://harriettubmanbyway. traveled north and eventually Site of the oldest African- org/harriet-tubman- joined Harriet Tubman in American Methodist memorial-garden/ Canada. The group became congregation (1825) in Cambridge. known as the “Dover Eight.” In umc.org/find-a-church/ Harriet Tubman Museum 1861, another enslaved man, church/79020 THIRD HAVEN MEETING HOUSE • Easton and Educational Center John Wesley Hughes, fled from 424 Race St, 21613 the Meredith Farm with George Centreville QUA F-21 410-228-0401 Hackett from a neighboring farm, but the pair were eventually Hope School Keeping Harriet Tubman’s arrested and returned. legacy alive with museum tours 125 Ruthsburg Rd, 21617 harriettubmanbyway.org/ (by appointment), literature 410-758-2502 pritchett-meredith-farm EASTERN and historical displays. In 1892, this one-room harriettubmanbyway.org/ Stanley Institute schoolhouse was listed as SHORE harriet-tubman-museum “Colored School No. 2.” It was Caroline County (CRN) MD 16 W & Bayley Rd, 21613 restored and moved to Queen Cecil County (CEC) Long Wharf at Cambridge Anne’s County High School. Dorchester County (DOR) 410-228-6657 100 High St, 21613 qac.org/208/schools Kent County (KEN) 410-228-1000 Restored, 19th-century one-room Queen Anne’s County (QUA) schoolhouse, among the oldest Kennard School Somerset County (SOM) Seven enslaved men and women in the state to be organized Talbot County (TAL) The letter-number code escaped from Town Point on by African Americans. 410 Little Kidwell Ave, 21617 Wicomico County (WIC) listed beside each July 24, 1858 with the help of 410-758-2502 destination refers to the Irish immigrant conductor, Hugh harriettubmanbyway. Worcester County (WOR) fold-out map inside the org/stanley-institute Built in 1936 to be the county’s back cover. Hazlett. They were caught in first secondary school for African northeastern Caroline County and Staplefort Farm: Bob Americans. Named for Lucretia then shipped back to Cambridge Kennard Daniels, who, along on the steamboat Kent. A mob Manokey Escape Site with Larrie S. Jones, helped Dorchester County the story of the Underground awaited their arrival here to lynch Wildlife Dr, Blackwater Bucktown DOR I-21 National Wildlife purchase land for the school. Courthouse Railroad in Dorchester and Hazlett. The sheriff ordered the Caroline counties. An audio steamboat to leave Long Wharf Refuge, 2145 Key https://www.historicqac. Brodess Farm/ Harriet 206 High St, 21613 tour is available for download, and dock elsewhere. Hazlett was Wallace Dr, 21613 org/historic-site/old- Tubman Marker 410-228-1000 and stories about byway sites taken to the Cambridge jail, tried, 410-228-2677 kennard-high-school Greenbrier Rd, 21613 Site of frequent slave auctions are told through interpretive convicted and sent to prison for On December 10, 1828 Bob Edward Brodess moved throughout the antebellum markers and a tour brochure. 44 years. The freedom seekers Manokey fled from the Staplefort Chesapeake Harriet Tubman’s mother Rit period. Sam Green, a free harriettubmanbyway.org were re-enslaved. Other freedom family, whose plantation sat on City CEC B-22 and her children (including black Underground Railroad seekers, John Wesley Hughes the Little Blackwater River near Harriet) to his farm in agent, was convicted here for Frederick Douglass Driving and George Hackett fled from the Little Blackwater Bridge. The Chesapeake and Bucktown after 1823. owning a copy of Uncle Tom’s Tour of Talbot County Bucktown and used a forged pass Stapleforts advertised a $150 Delaware Canal Museum Harriet spent her early Cabin. White Underground 11 S Harrison St, 21601 to board the steamer Kent for reward for his capture and return, 815 Bethel Rd, 21915 years here and on nearby Railroad agent Hugh Hazlett 410-770-8000 Baltimore. The suspicious captain noting that Manokey was a very 215-656-6615; farms. Tubman was called stood trial here. Outdoor exhibit returned them to Cambridge skilled man - a great sawyer. 410-885-5622 explains how Harriet Tubman’s Born into slavery, Frederick where Hughes was returned to Given Manokey’s experience as “The Moses of Her People” The canal provided a route niece Kessiah Bowley and her Douglass escaped to become a his enslaver, Pritchett Meredith. a sawyer and the Staplefort’s for her work on the for freedom seekers aboard two children escaped from leading abolitionist. His speeches harriettubmanbyway. home on a navigable river, Underground Railroad. inspired many whites to work on steamboats, schooners and other the auction block in 1850. org/long-wharf Manokey would have been harriettubmanbyway. the Underground Railroad. Self- water craft. Boats entered at Elk org/brodess-farm harriettubmanbyway. familiar with the watermen who guided driving tour gives visitors manned the vessels that carried River in Cecil County and exited org/dorchester- an overview of Douglass’ early Pritchett Meredith Farm at Delaware City, Delaware. This Bucktown & Decoursey timber to shipyards throughout Cambridge DOR I-21 county-courthouse life at 14 sites. Information and route to Philadelphia was safer Bridge Rd, 21613 the Chesapeake and to New tour brochure available from the for smaller watercraft than the Finding a Way to England. He could have relied on Bucktown Village Store Historical Society of Talbot County. In March 1857, Thomas Elliott this transportation for his escape. Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Freedom Tour: Harriet 4303 Bucktown Rd, 21613 frederickdouglassbirthplace. and Denard Hughes fled the Visitors may drive along the Little Bay. William Still and Sydney 410-901-9255 Tubman Underground org/driving-tour/ farm of their enslaver, Pritchett Blackwater Bridge or Wildlife Howard Gay recorded escapes Site of Harriet Tubman’s first Railroad Byway Meredith. With six other freedom Drive to see the Staplefort farm. on steamboats and schooners public act of defiance. She Visitor Center at Sailwinds Harriet Tubman seekers, the group was betrayed passing through the canal. Park, 2 Rose Hill Pl, 21613 by a black Underground Railroad fws.gov/refuge/Blackwater/ was struck in the head with Memorial Garden https://chesapeakecity. 410-228-1000 agent, Thomas Otwell, who had a two-pound weight while Rt 50 & Washington St, 21613 com/cd-canal-museum 1-800-522-TOUR been enticed by the $3,000 Waugh Chapel United assisting a slave to avoid the 410-228-1000 • 1-800-522-TOUR Methodist Church A 125-mile driving tour reward for their capture. Boldly anger of the field overseer. Native plantings, interpretive escaping the Dover, Delaware 425 High St, 21613 featuring sites that illustrate harriettubmanbyway.org/ signs and artistic tribute jail, the freedom seekers 410-228-5189 bucktown-village-store to Harriet Tubman.

30 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 31 Chestertown KEN D-21 when he and his brothers fled Denton CRN G-22 Crouse Memorial Park Richard Potter Tuckahoe Neck during the Christmas holidays in 5 Crouse Park, 21629 Home Site Meeting House 1854. Jane disguised herself in Historical Society of Caroline County 410-479-2050 9 N 4th St, 21629 24820 Meeting House Rd, men’s clothing to successfully Kent County Courthouse and Jail 410-479-2730 21629 • 410-479-0655 flee Jones. A significant portion Moses Viney fled his enslaver 301 High Street, 21620 Courthouse Square Built in 1803, this was one of of Jones’ plantation is located Richard Murphy in 1840. The In this post Civil War residence 410-778-3499 109 Market St, 21629 five Quaker meeting houses within Blackwater National plantation’s hounds tracked of Richard Potter, he wrote Information on African 410-479-2730 in Caroline County whose Wildlife Refuge. Visitors can him and two other men in his his kidnapping narrative. Americans in Kent County. party, but Moses relied on a members sustained a local paddle to Buttons Creek This is the site where Born free around 1838 in kentcountyhistory.org carefully made plan. He had Greensboro, Delaware, Richard Underground Railroad network. via the Blackwater River. Underground Railroad operatives Quakers also supported and enslaved people were been feeding Murphy’s dogs was indentured in 1848 by harriettubmanbyway. and treating them well. When women’s equality and the end Church Creek DOR J-21 imprisoned for fleeing the bonds his mother, Sydney Potter to org/buttons-creek the dogs charged him, Moses of slavery. Abolitionist Hannah of slavery. Some were later tried Batchelder Skinner, a farmer Buttons Creek: greeted them and ordered near Greensboro. Skinner leased Leverton from the Linchester Harriet Tubman at the courthouse. In late July Jane Kane Escape Site them home. The three men then him illegally to Edward Taylor, Mill area spoke here also. Underground Railroad 1858, a group of seven freedom MD Rt 335 & Little crossed the Choptank River. another Greensboro farmer harriettubmanbyway.org/ State Park seekers and Hugh Hazlett, an Blackwater River, 21622 carolinemd.org/ around 1852, who was cruel and Tuckahoe-neck-meeting-house 4068 Golden Hill Irish immigrant who helped 410-228-2692 facilities/facility/details/ abusive. Richard’s parents sued Rd, 21622 them escape, were captured Daniel-Crouse-Memorial- William Still Family Jane Kane was enslaved by and brought to the jail. They to cancel their son’s indenture, The park is dedicated to the Park-42 Interpretive Center Horatio Jones, whom she were later taken to trial via and Taylor schemed to sell legacy of Harriet Tubman and 4-H Park, Detour Rd, 21629 described as “the worst man in steamboat down the Choptank Potter as a slave. In 1853, in a the Underground Railroad and Denton Steamboat Wharf 410-479-0655 the country.” Jones’ plantation River. The freedom seekers were trap set by Taylor, Potter was includes a visitor center, picnic 10219 River Landing Rd, William Still, famous Underground sat along Buttons Creek and re-enslaved and Hazlett was kidnapped and sold to a man pavilion, gardens and trails, 21629 • 410-479-0655 Railroad agent and author of the Blackwater River, west of convicted and sent to prison for named Vaughn, who lived near which provide an opportunity The Underground Railroad, this landing. Harriet Tubman’s 44 years. In 1849, Isaac Gibson, At this wharf, captured Concord, Delaware. With search to experience firsthand the has family roots in this area. brother, Ben Ross, had hoped to a free African American, was Underground Railroad agent parties hot on his trail, Vaughn beauty of the Tubman landscape Hugh Hazlett and seven His mother, Sidney Still, and marry Jane, but Jones refused captured and jailed in Denton decided to kill Potter. Potter fled while also gaining insight into freedom seekers boarded four of her children lived in a to allow them to do so. Ben for helping enslaved John from Vaughn and found refuge the hardship and challenges the steamer Kent for return to with a sympathetic neighbor, house similar to the one found arranged for Jane to join him Stokes attempt to flee. Gibson here on Alexander “Saunders” enslaved African Americans was tried and convicted at the Cambridge, from which they Mrs. Short. Potter was rescued had fled. The group had left Griffith’s plantation. Sidney fled faced during their journeys Caroline County Courthouse in and brought back to Denton to freedom. Immersive and Town Point in Cambridge, but to be greeted by his joyful around 1806, but had to leave March 1851 and sentenced to were betrayed by a free African her two sons, Levin and Peter, interactive exhibits reveal more than three years in prison. parents and cheering crowds. stories about Tubman’s life. American named Jesse Perry behind. Griffith sold the boys harriettubmanbyway.org/ dnr.maryland.gov/ and were captured between to slave traders from Kentucky. caroline-courthouse Richard Potter Rescue Sidney joined her husband publiclands/Pages/ Henderson and Templeville Celebration Site in northeast Caroline County. in New Jersey and renamed eastern/tubman.aspx 4 N 2nd St, 21629 herself Charity. Eventually Peter The group was placed in the 410-479-0655 Caroline County jail in Denton was reunited with his family prior to their return trip to This site is the location of the with the assistance of Still. Cambridge for trial. The freedom former hotel where Richard harriettubmanbyway. HARRIET TUBMAN seekers were re-enslaved and Potter was brought after he was org/William-still- (1822–1913) Hazlett was convicted and rescued from being kidnapped interpretive-center began life enslaved in the Cambridge area. Having sent to prison for 44 years. into slavery in 1853. At this site, escaped in 1849, she returned a year later as a “conductor” harriettubmanbyway.org/ Richard Potter’s freedom began. Choptank denton-steamboat-wharf African American and white River on the Underground Railroad and helped lead dozens of residents celebrated the rescue 3 Crouse Park Lane 21629 enslaved family and friends to freedom over thirteen trips. Museum of Rural Life and return of Richard John Potter, 410-479-4950 16 N Second St, 21629 a free black youth who had been Site of numerous escape In 2013, to mark the 100th anniversary of her passing, the 410-479-2055 kidnapped from Greensboro, attempts by freedom seekers Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and the Museum depicts historic MD and sold into slavery in relying on their own maritime rural lifestyle of townspeople Delaware. Potter’s indenture, skills or secreted aboard vessels. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park including a free black sailor kidnapping and rescue are vividly More than 15 public access were dedicated. and an enslaved girl. Exhibits documented in his memoir, The points, including Martinak State highlight Harriet Tubman, who Narrative of the Experience, Park, Choptank Boat Launch, passed through the area along Adventures, and Escape of the Choptank River Heritage the Underground Railroad. Richard Potter, published in 1866. Center and Joppa Steamboat carolinehistory.org/places/ Wharf in West Denton. museum-of-rural-life https://choptankriverheritage. org/wp3/

32 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 33 East New do so, but instead rescued four sculptor Jay Hall Carpenter Harmony CRN G-22 . Jacob Jackson, a religious camp meeting, as he enslaved men living at and near for the statue of Frederick the free black veterinarian and feared being sold to slave traders Market DOR H-22 a farm in Cabin Creek who were Douglass on the front lawn of farmer, who received a coded from Georgia upon the death Joseph Cornish Escape ready to leave. Underground Talbot County Courthouse. letter and helped Tubman of his master and plantation Faith Community United from Gilpin’s Point Railroad Agent Sydney Howard frederickdouglassbirthplace. arrange the escape of her three owner, Samuel Jarman. Tillotson Methodist Church Holly Park Dr, 21655 brothers, also lived in the area. Gay of wrote that org 410-479-2730 narrowly escaped slave catchers 509 Railroad Ave, 21613 “Captain Tubman arrived safely harriettubmanbyway. who pursued him. Today, 410-943-4383 with her charges on May 14.” Historical Society of Enslaved Joseph Cornish org/Madison Grantham and Forrest Farm is Sarah Young, a free black Benjamin Jackson and James Talbot County escaped on a vessel on the not open to the public. Please woman, deeded land near here Coleman, enslaved by Isaac 30 S Washington St, 21601 Choptank River from Gilpin’s Malone’s Church view site from the road. 410-822-0773 in 1843 to seven free black Henry Wright; Henry Hopkins, Point, one of the busiest White Marsh Rd, 21648 kentcounty.com trustees, including the Rev. enslaved by John Houston; and Campus includes an antiques wharves along the Choptank River in Caroline County in For decades before the Civil Samuel Green, an Underground William A. Connoway, enslaved shop, three historic homes and War, four nearby communities, Perry Point CEC B-22 Railroad agent, to establish the by Levin Hodson. The four a museum that features profiles the 19th century. He stopped in Philadelphia and told his connected by footpaths through Colored People’s Methodist eventually settled in Canada. and exhibits on important African the woods, provided a strong Susquehanna Railroad Episcopal Church in August Americans from Talbot County. story to William Still who recorded it. Still offered him social network among free and Ferry at Perryville 1844. The building is the second Easton TAL H-21 https://talbothistory.org/ enslaved blacks. As soon as the Perry Point VA Medical Center, to house this continuously food and rest and sent him to New York and then Canada. war ended, these communities 21902 • 410-287-8872 operating congregation. Third Haven Meeting House Frederick Douglass Marker harriettubmanbyway. established their own African- The Philadelphia, Wilmington harriettubmanbyway.org/ 405 S Washington St, 21601 Matthewstown Rd, near org/Gilpin-point American churches. Founded and Baltimore Railroad Steam faith-community-united- Tuckahoe River Bridge, 21601 410-822-0293 in 1864, Malone’s Methodist Ferry Landing site at the mouth methodist-church 410-770-8000 The oldest positively identified Madison DOR I-21 Episcopal Church was the first. of the was Frederick Douglass was structure in Maryland. Used harriettubmanbyway. used for numerous famous and Isaac Henry Wright born in 1818 on a farm that by Quakers, who were ardent org/malones-church lesser known Underground Farm Site Jacob Jackson is now Trappers Corner. A abolitionists, it likely housed Railroad escapes, as well as 4042 Baker Rd at Rt 16, Home Site marker honors his memory. freedom seekers. Parson’s Creek: Keene a kidnapping and rescue of 21613 • 410-903-5273 MD Route 16, 21648 frederickdouglassbirthplace. thirdhaven.org Family Escape Route a free Pennsylvanian. At the In April 1856, Harriet Tubman org This is the homesite of Jacob Parsons Creek at Rt 16, Jackson, a free black farmer and Susquehanna River, trains arrived on Maryland’s Eastern Elkton CEC B-22 21648 • 410-228-1000 stopped in Havre de Grace, and Frederick Douglass Statue noted veterinarian, who helped Shore hoping to rescue her Tubman rescue her brothers. In April 1831, Joseph Keene and passengers and cars crossed sister Rachel. She was unable to 11 N Washington St, 21601 Historical Society of his pregnant wife Nellie stole a on the railroad ferry, then 410-770-8001 In 1854, Tubman discovered Cecil County that her brothers were soon small boat and sailed their seven resumed their journey from The Frederick Douglass 135 E Main St, 21921 to be sold as slaves. She had children to freedom from Perryville. Frederick Douglass Honor Society commissioned 410-398-1790 a friend in Philadelphia write Parsons Creek in Dorchester escaped on this railroad in 1838. Others include Henry “Box” Genealogical library, a letter to Jackson, who lived County. Enslaved by Levin Brown, Charlotte Giles and artifacts, local history library, near the plantation where her Woolford, the Keene family took Harriet Eglin and the Crafts. log cabin. Resources on brothers worked. Within the an unusual and risky step to enslaved persons and African letter was a carefully coded liberate themselves. Escapes of history.amtrak.com/blogs/ Americans in Maryland. message to Jacob to let her entire families, especially large blog/exploring-underground- brothers know that she was railroad-heritage-sites/ cecilhistory.org/ families, were rare. Joe and coming for them. With Jacob’s Nellie were successful in help, Harriet’s brothers were FREDERICK DOUGLASS Greensboro CRN G-22 evading capture. Pocomoke City WOR M-24 able to meet her and escape out harriettubmanbyway.org/ of Maryland and into Canada. Sturgis One-Room (1818-1895), began his life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Greensboro joseph-stewarts-canal nps.gov/hatu School Museum North Main St & Cedar Ln, as a slave. After years of mistreatment he was sent to 209 Willow St, 21851 21639 • 410-479-0655 Millington KEN D-21 Madison 410-957-1913 Baltimore, where he began working for the brother- In 1797, Greensboro resident MD Rt 16 & Madison Grantham and Circa 1900, African-American Peter Harrington was president Canning House Rd, 21648 in-law of his master’s daughter as a ship’s caulker. In Forrest Farm one-room school museum. of the Choptank Abolition In early June 1854, Harriet 31245 Chesterville Bridge Rd, 1838, he disguised himself as a sailor and crossed into Society, formed to promote octhebeach.com/ Tubman successfully led from 21651 • 410-778-0416 museum/Sturgis.html free territory. He was one of the most gifted writers and the end of slavery in Maryland. here Winnebar Johnson, the Quakers, some Methodists Benjamin Tillotson (Abram slave of Samuel Harrington. Rilison) escaped from speakers of the Civil War era, and led the abolitionist and others joined the society. Johnson was passed along to enslavement here in 1857 during movement by using words as a tool against the people Peter Harrington is buried in a the bustling port of New Bedford, local cemetery in Greensboro. who attempted to oppress him. He later served as the harriettubmanbyway. U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti. org/Greensboro

34 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 35 whose beliefs included abolition. a free black man who married Town named in honor of Less than six months after her the sister of Frederick Douglass. 17 African-American Civil Preston CRN H-22 sentencing, Queen Anne’s One son worked as a bay War soldiers who returned County leaders, including Hopper waterman in the 1800s. home to purchase land. Choptank Landing and Carmichael, successfully cbmm.org tourtalbot.org Choptank Rd at petitioned the Governor for Choptank River, 21655 her pardon in May 1856. This Sudlersville QUA E-22 Josiah Bailey, a skilled shipwright, case illustrates the complicated Worton KEN D-21 escaped slavery in November nature of relations among Dudley’s Chapel Marker slave holders, their servants 1856 by rowing a boat at night 1110 Benton Corner Rd, 21668 African American in bondage and free African 410-928-3406 six miles from Jamaica Point in Americans. The site is a private Schoolhouse Museum Talbot County up the Choptank residence near Queenstown Among the oldest Methodist 11730 St. James-Newtown River. He passed by here on WEBB CABIN • Preston and is not open to the public. churches in the country. Rd, 21678 • 410-810-1416 his way to nearby Poplar Neck, storiesofthechesapeake.org Preaching station for bishops One-room schoolhouse where he met with Ben Ross, Cooke and Ashbury. built in 1890. Showplace of Harriet Tubman’s father, to plan cross Hunting Creek on freedom 1852 and lived here with his Salisbury WIC K-24 historicqac.org/historic- 19th- and early-20th-century his escape the next time she was site/dudleys-chapel seekers’ journeys northward. enslaved wife and their four photographs, oral histories and ready to go. Tubman led Bailey children. Typical of housing for carolinehistory.org/ Chipman Cultural Center artifacts from Kent County’s and three others to Canada. most African Americans at the places/linchester-mill-campus 327 Broad St, 21801 African-American community. harriettubmanbyway. time, this cabin is a rare survivor. Taylors Island DOR J-19 410-860-9290 kentcounty.com/attractions/ org/choptank-landing Poplar Neck Plantation harriettubmanbyway. org/webb-cabin Located in the oldest standing New Revived Church museums/#aaschoolhouse at Marsh Creek African-American church on Jacob and Hannah 4350 Smithville Rd, 21669 Northwest side of Marsh the Delmarva, circa 1838, the Charles Sumner GAR Hall Leverton House Princess Anne SOM L-23 410-228-2110 Creek Bridge, Poplar center features displays and 206 S Queen St, 21620 3531 Seaman Rd, 21655 Neck Rd, 21655 events highlighting the area’s The New Revived United 410-778-3222 410-673-1910 410-479-2730 Teackle Mansion rich African-American heritage. Methodist Church, once known Built in 1908, one of only two Jacob and Hannah Leverton’s 11736 Mansion St, 21853 chipmancenter.org as Jefferson Methodist Episcopal This area is part of the former Church, was established in African- home provided a safe haven 410-651-2238; 1-800-521-9189 Anthony C. Thompson “Poplar Smithville in 1876. Before the Civil veterans’ halls standing in the and was a major stop along the WOR M-25 Neck” plantation where Harriet Early-1800s brick mansion Snow Hill War, Methodist Camp Meetings United States. A Civil War Trails Underground Railroad. After Tubman conducted several is home of Somerset were popular in the area. exhibit interprets the hall. Jacob’s death in 1857, his son escape missions during the Historical Society. Mount Zion One-Room School Museum harriettubmanbyway. kentcounty.com/attractions/ Arthur provided protection and 1850s. Harriet Tubman’s parents, somersetcounty org/new-revived-united- Ben and Rit Ross, were active 117 Ironshire St, 21863 museums/sumner-hall aid to runaways. Exposed as historicalsociety.org methodist-church Underground Railroad agents in the Underground Railroad 410-632-0669 in 1858, Arthur and Daniel from their home on this large Authentic one-room school, plantation. They assisted Hubbard, a free black neighbor, Queenstown QUA F-21 built in 1869, and used as TAL H-20 fled for their lives ahead of a Tubman, her brothers and others a school until 1931. Unionville local mob seeking revenge for as they escaped from here on Belle Vue furnacetown.org/mt-zion- Unionville Christmas Day in 1854. Tubman Carmichael Rd, 21658 attempting escape. There is an oneroom-schoolhouse Unionville & Mills Rds, interpretive marker. The house also led another group from this area in November 1856 with Ben Phebe Myers, a free black 21601 • 410-770-8000 is not open to the public. Ross’s aid. The northwest side of spinner residing on Maryland’s St. Michaels TAL H-20 harriettubmanbyway. the bridge is owned by Caroline Eastern Shore, helped seven of org/Jacob-and-hannah- County. The rest of the former her children and grandchildren Chesapeake Bay leverton-home plantation is privately owned. to seek freedom from the Maritime Museum harriettubmanbyway. Carmichael / Belle Vue Farm near 213 North Talbot St, 21663 Linchester Mill org/choptank-landing Wye Island in August 1855. Their 410-745-2916 3390 Linchester Rd, 21655 slaveholder, Richard Bennett Extensive maritime exhibits, 410-310-9202 Webb Cabin Carmichael, had emancipated plus a white clapboard house Grove Rd, 21655 Phebe in 1839. They were once owned by Peter Mitchell, Quakers and free blacks who apprehended and Phebe Myers lived near and worked at the James H. Webb, a free African- was indicted on seven counts of mill secretly helped fleeing American farmer, built this “harboring and assisting slaves to slaves pass through the area. hand-hewn log home around run away.” Myers was sentenced The mill dam created a spot to by Judge Philomen B. Hopper to more than 42 years in prison. The judge was a leader among ardent Methodist reformers UNIONVILLE MARKER • Unionville

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38 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 39 Finding a Way to Freedom Adventures of County sites gives the visitor an Driving Tour: Harriet Harriet Tubman & the overview of Frederick Douglass’ Tubman Underground UGRR at Blackwater early life. It was here that he You’re going to Railroad Byway 2524 Key Wallace Dr, learned what it meant to be a 2 Rose Hill Pl, 21613 21613 • 410-901-9255 slave and that it was possible to 410-228-1000 escape. Information available Travel by boat or bicycle from the Talbot County Visitor LOVE Explore the Eastern Shore along the banks and rivers of Center. of Maryland with Harriet Blackwater National Wildlife Kent Tubman, one of the most Refuge. Explore the waterways https:// famous Underground Railroad that Harriet Tubman used to frederickdouglassbirthplace. MD conductors. After finding her escape on the Underground org/driving-tour County own liberty in 1849, Tubman Railroad. Guided tours by returned to this area to bring appointment for a fee. CRN H-22 away about 70 family members blackwateradventuresmd. Ridgely and friends. Drive along the com 125-mile self-guided tour and A Journey Begins: experience exhibits, landscapes, Nature’s Role in homes and home sites, meeting Easton TAL H-21 the Flight to Freedom, houses and courthouses that An Audio Tour illustrate the life and work of 12610 Eveland Rd, 21660 Frederick Douglass 410-634-2847 Harriet Tubman. Trace her Driving Tour of escape routes and the paths of Talbot County The guide leads people on trails other freedom seekers, through 11 S. Harrison St 21601 through forest, marsh and field fields, forests, waterways, and 410-770-8000 to enhance their understanding roads that brought them to the of the Underground Railroad, Visit Maryland’s Upper Eastern Shore on the Chesapeake Bay safe homes and hiding places Frederick Douglass was born while demonstrating how of black and white Underground into slavery in Talbot County. nature provided both obstacles any describe the shores of the He later escaped and became Railroad agents. Information, and opportunities for freedom Chesapeake Bay and its self-guided driving brochure one of the leading Americans seekers. The landscape evokes in the Abolition Movement. tributaries as breathtaking and and audio tour available from the Underground Railroad era relaxing, for there is something the Dorchester Visitor Center His eloquent words inspired as a context for understanding that touches the senses when water abounds. at Sailwinds Park East. many whites to work on the what it was like to escape from M Underground Railroad. This self- Maryland’s smallest County of Kent, a charming harriettubmanbyway.org Maryland’s Eastern Shore. guided driving tour of 14 Talbot adkinsarboretum.org/about_ peninsula, is a perfect getaway destination. The us/title/audio-tours peaceful vistas and beautiful landscape of rolling hills, farms, vineyards and open space is the perfect setting to get away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. Enjoy the peace and beauty, but be ready to have fun, for this quaint countryside is host to hundreds of events and flourishes with many attractions, recreational activities, local fresh foods, natural history, shopping, arts, wineries and a distillery. Chesapeake Country National Scenic Byway will lead you to Historic Chestertown, Rock Hall, Galena, Betterton, Millington, Kennedyville and Georgetown. Whether cycling, bird watching, getting out on the water, taking a nature walk on one of Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge’s trails, exploring history, touring or having fun at an event, you will fall in love with this very special VISITORS LISTEN TO THE AUDIO TOUR, A JOURNEY BEGINS, AT THE ADKINS ARBORETUM. Chesapeake Bay region called Kent County. For more information, please visit www.kentcounty.com and be sure to follow us kentcounty.com on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 40 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 1 Maryland of Tradition

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