Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Maryland preserves the landscape of Harriet Tubman’s early life and resistance to slavery on the Eastern Shore, including places near Cambridge, Windy Hill, and Preston. The protected area includes four hundred eighty acres at the Jacob Jackson Home site, property of a free Black farmer and Tubman’s friend in Dorchester County, and Congress authorized future acquisition of more than four thousand two hundred seven additional acres in Dorchester, Caroline, and Talbot counties. Created as a national monument in 2013 and redesignated in 2014, the park emphasizes the broader physical setting of Tubman’s life rather than a single building.

Maryland · United States