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.

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.

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