Harriet Tubman Marker

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Bucktown in Dorchester County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Harriet Tubman
1820-1913

Harriett Tubman Marker Photo, Click for full size

By F. Robby, November 3, 2007

1. Harriett Tubman Marker

Inscription. The "Moses of her People", Harriett Tubman of the Bucktown District found freedom for herself and some three hundred other slaves whom she led north. In the Civil War she served the Union army as a nurse, scout and spy.

Erected by Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission.

Location. 38° 27.544′ N, 76° 2.906′ W. Marker is in Bucktown, Maryland, in Dorchester County. Marker is on Greenbrier Road one mile west of Bestpitch Ferry Road, on the left when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Cambridge MD 21613, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. Finding Freedom (a few steps from this marker); Treaty Oak (approx. 6.3 miles away); “Stanley Institute” (approx. 6.6 miles away); “Appleby” (approx. 6.9 miles away); Anna Ella Carroll (approx. 7 miles away); Trinity P.E. Church (approx. 7.1 miles away); Meredith House (approx. 7.5 miles away); Thomas Holliday Hicks (approx. 7.6 miles away).

Harriet Tubman Photo, Click for full size

By H. B. Lindsley, c.1870

2. Harriet Tubman

Library of Congress photo, LC-USZ62-7816.

Before the marker had been damaged Photo, Click for full size

M. Bourne - Maryland Historical Trust Historic Sites Survey, November 1975

3. Before the marker had been damaged

Credits. This page originally submitted on December 4, 2007, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 8,978 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 4, 2007, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland. 3. submitted on February 29, 2008, by Christopher Busta-Peck of Shaker Heights, Ohio.