Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center

Harriet Tubman’s developmental years were spent along the Eastern Shore and her first acts of resistance occurred in Church Creek, Maryland. The Harriet Tubman Visitor Center is set against Church Creek’s coastal and marshy environment with two second story, front gable buildings that house a permanent exhibit that describes Tubman’s legacy and other exhibits that focus on Underground Railroad experiences from a regional perspective.

• A building with three pitched roofs and one flat roof. The first portion of the building is lined in red cedar. To the left of the wooden section, the following two sections are lined in zinc. The last section with the flat roof is lined in glass. The land on either side of the building is flat with manicured grass and a line of trees can be seen in the background.

The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom The Underground Railroad – the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight through the end of the civil war – refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park

Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park and sculpture commemorate the trust and friendship between Quaker, Thomas Garrett, and Harriet Tubman during their most critical collaborations from about 1854 through 1860.

• Located along the Christina River, Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park is an open-air greenspace with brick walkways throughout, benches for seating and interpretive panels covering Wilmington industrial history. The Christina Riverwalk extends along the park and through Riverfront Wilmington for about one mile. The park features a sculpture of Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett commemorating their friendship, as well as interpretive panels and state markers on the theme of freedom. When facing the river, to the right is the successor to the Market Street Bridge, used frequently by Tubman as she passed through. There is free parking offered in the Riverfront Market Overflow Lot, adjacent to the park (west). The park is also host to various public and private events throughout the year.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center

• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center
• Operated in partnership with the Maryland Park Service, this visitor center considers the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman, born a slave here in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman escaped her condition of slavery and returned to Maryland to bring more than 70 relatives and friends to freedom using the Underground Railroad network. Experience the landscape that colored Tubman's early life, and explore exhibits and a film to learn more about her compelling story.

• Spend a Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
• Amid bird calls, freshly plowed fields, and the hum of mosquitoes, the landscape that shaped Harriet Tubman’s life as an enslaved child, young woman, and freedom seeker thrives still in Dorchester, Talbot, and Caroline Counties, preserved within the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument and National Historical Park