On Greenbrier Road, 1.5 miles east of Maple Dam Road, on the right when traveling east.
Harriet Tubman spent some of her childhood on this farm once owned by Edward Brodess. It was here that she experienced the comforts of family and the cruelties of slavery.
Tubman was born a few miles away, on Anthony Thompson's plantation. . . . — — Map (db m205133) HM
On Greenbrier Road, 1 mile west of Bestpitch Ferry Road, on the left when traveling west.
The Call of Freedom
In the mid-19th century, 8,000 African Americans lived in Dorchester County. Roughly half were slaves; most of the rest worked as free laborers. Enslaved blacks, free blacks, and abolitionist whites worked together to . . . — — Map (db m3959) HM
Near Bucktown Road at Greenbriar Road. Reported missing.
Dorchester County occupies a central place in the story of the Underground Railroad, the secret network of "stations" and "conductors" that sheltered and shepherded hundreds of enslave African Americans to freedom in the mid-1800s. The famed . . . — — Map (db m126550) HM
On Bucktown Road at Greenbriar Road, on the right when traveling north on Bucktown Road.
While in this store, a young adolescent Harriet witnessed an enslaved young man fleeing his overseer. He darted from his master's control. In the turmoil, Harriet defied a direct order to help restrain the young man. It was her first known public . . . — — Map (db m205134) HM
On Greenbrier Road, 1 mile west of Bestpitch Ferry Road, on the left when traveling west.
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. — — Map (db m3956) HM
