Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway

12/12/2024

The Christmas Eve Walk with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center is coming up soon on Maryland's Eastern Shore! Time to reserve your spot!

Let us know if you’re joining the walk? We’ve received donations and can reduce further donations to $20 per person and free for children of all ages. We’ll need a count to determine if a bus will be provided for return trip. harriettubmanmuseumcenter.org

12/06/2024

This Sunday, Dec. 8 at 1pm, head to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park & Visitor Center for a talk by Philip Hesser about Harriet Tubman's life after the Underground Railroad.
>> Plan your road trip to Tubman Country at HarrietTubmanByway.org.
>> While you're in the area, combine history and the holidays. See the Dorchester County Holiday Guide at bit.ly/DoCoHolidays2024

11/30/2024

🎄🦀While you're exploring the Harriet Tubman Byway on Maryland's Eastern Shore, be sure to stop in Downtown Cambridge to experience the Crab Basket Tree - constructed by volunteers out of 200 bushel baskets used for crabbing! Enjoy some local seafood while you're at i! 🎄🦀
🎀 Find more holiday attractions and events in the Dorchester Holiday Guide: bit.ly/DoCoHolidays2024
🚗 Plan your road trip at HarrietTubmanByway.org.

🎄🦀 ICYMI: The great Crab Basket Tree of Cambridge went up yesterday, thanks to the hard work of a team of volunteers who have been adding this joy to our holiday season for a decade! Let's hear it for Brandon Hesson and his team of volunteers!
🦀 You can see the Crab Basket Tree in the parking lot of Craig's Drug Store at 409 Race St., Cambridge.
🎀 More reason to head to Cambridge: Today is Small Business Saturday! Support our local, independently owned businesses! Plus, some merchants have special sales today!
🎄 All are welcome to come and take a selfie at the Crab Tree! See what other holiday fun is going on around Dorchester County with our Holiday Guide: bit.ly/DoCoHolidays2024

📷 Jameson Harrington

11/26/2024

The Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center leads a Christmas Eve Walk Dec. 24 from Mount Pleasant Cemetery to Choptank Landing (both sites along the Harriet Tubman Byway), to honor Harriet Tubman, who led her third rescue mission on Christmas Eve, 1854. There will be a musical presentation at the cemetery and a lotus flower release ceremony at the landing. $40 donation per adult; children free.
>> Register at harriettubmanmuseumcenter.org (click on events).

Images courtesy Harriet Tubman Museum.

11/22/2024

Here's what's coming up at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park & Visitor Center in Church Creek, MD – Stop #14 along the road trip known as the Harriet Tubman Byway.
>> Plan your trip at HarrietTubmanByway.org.

11/15/2024

Happenings this weekend at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park & Visitor Center in Church Creek, MD – Stop #14 along the road trip known as the Harriet Tubman Byway.
>> Plan your trip at HarrietTubmanByway.org.

11/14/2024

11/14/2024

Join the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center for an evening of soulful music as the Eric Byrd Trio takes the stage in Cambridge, MD on Nov. 16 from 7 to 8:30pm (Doors open 6pm). Immerse yourself in the trio's masterful blend of swing, bebop, gospel, blues, and jazz. Happening at Venue, 419 Race St. in Cambridge (across the street from the museum). This is part of the museum's Jazz at the Mural series. Tickets cost $20 in advance; $25 at door, with all proceeds directly supporting the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center's mission.
>> Buy tickets: harriettubmanmuseumcenter.org/events-1/november-jazz-at-the-mural-with-the-eric-byrd-trio

11/13/2024

Tickets still available for this wonderful fundraiser for Groove City Black Heritage !

11/11/2024

Here's a brief video snippet of Maryland Governor Wes Moore speaking at today's ceremony posthumously commissioning Harriet Tubman to the rank of brigadier general by the Maryland National Guard. We were thrilled to see this honor for Harriet Tubman! The event took place at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park & Visitor Center in Church Creek, MD (Stop #14 on the Tubman Byway).
>> Read more about the news from WJZ-TV | CBS Baltimore: cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-harriet-tubman-military-service

11/11/2024

Today Harriet Tubman was Commissioned as a Brigadier General with the Maryland National Guard. 🇺🇸💙❤️

11/09/2024

Big news! On Veterans Day, Harriet Tubman will be posthumously named a brigadier general by the Maryland National Guard, according to the Baltimore Banner! Did you know she was the first Black woman to serve the U.S. military in combat? During the Civil War, she was a spy, scout, nurse and cook. But she never had official status within the military, and she battled for decades to receive a military pension. On Monday, Nov. 11, she will be commissioned – more than a century after her death – as a one-star general.

Interestingly, abolitionist John Brown called Harriet Tubman "General Tubman" after meeting her in 1858 – three years before her Civil War work began.
>> Read the Baltimore Banner story: bit.ly/4fFvuFP

11/09/2024

You're invited! Help us honor the people and organizations who preserve and promote our Dorchester County heritage. On November 13 starting at 5pm, join in the Heart of Chesapeake Country Heritage Area Awards event at the Dorchester Center for the Arts. Free! Light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar.
>> RSVP: [email protected]
>> This year's honorees:
- Individual Achievement: Renna McKinney
- Organizational Excellence: Groove City Black Heritage & Culture Group
- Outstanding Project: Heralding Heroes – Juneteenth Celebration
- Volunteer of the Year - Peter Barclay

11/05/2024

Harriet Tubman is rarely described as disabled, but the truth is she was. After a traumatic brain injury as a child, she suffered from what historians believe was temporal lobe epilepsy the rest of her life. Psychology Today has a fascinating story about it. One quote from the story: "Acknowledging the disability that Tubman lived with—and triumphed with—offers us a key insight into Tubman’s life experience. Her disability did not define her, but it did shape her struggle...."
>> Link to the story in the comments.
>> Did you know that Stop #18 on the Harriet Tubman Byway – the Bucktown General Store – is the site of the store where Tubman was injured?

10/30/2024

The Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area and The Heart of the Chesapeake Heritage Area invites the public to attend a community conversation about the feasibility study for a national heritage area centered on Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area extending from the C and D canal to and including the Heart of the Chesapeake Heritage Area Dorchester County. Learn more about national heritage areas, the feasibility study process, ask questions, and share your ideas for the themes and priorities for this exciting national recognition for our region.

National Heritage Areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural resources combine to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes. Unlike national parks, National Heritage Areas are large lived-in landscapes. Consequently, National Heritage Areas entities collaborate with communities to determine how to make heritage relevant to local interests and needs.

Please consider attending one of the meetings

October 30, 2024, 5:30 PM

Eastern Shore Higher Education Center

Chesapeake College

1000 College Circle

Wye Mills Maryland

Heavy Hors d’oeuvres will be served.



October 31, 2024, 10 AM

Kent Cultural Alliance

101 Spring Street

Chestertown Maryland

10/29/2024

Visit Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park after hours starting at 6:30pm on Friday, Nov. 1 and look up at the night sky and learn about its importance to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. This family-friendly program will include night sky viewing, a chance to use a telescope with a ranger, crafts, and an opportunity to make and learn how to use a planisphere! Bring your own blanket or chair. Bug spray is encouraged. Pre-register at: https://forms.gle/jbomhYWu8WXWp4Jw9
or call 410-221-2290.
>> While you're here, explore the Harriet Tubman Byway. Plan your trip at HarrietTubmanByway.org.

10/24/2024

Volunteers needed to attend a FREE walking tour with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center! Join the museum this Saturday, Oct. 26 at 10am for a free historical walking tour of Horn Point in Cambridge, MD. The walk is being professionally filmed and they need your help to document the important work of the Harriet Tubman Museum. Each walker will also be interviewed to discuss how walking on the UGRR makes them feel. Interested? Send email to [email protected].

10/23/2024

Volunteers needed to attend a FREE walking tour with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center! Join the museum this Saturday, Oct. 26 at 10am for a free historical walking tour of Horn Point in Cambridge, MD. The walk is being professionally filmed and they need your help to document the important work of the Harriet Tubman Museum. Each walker will also be interviewed to discuss how walking on the UGRR makes them feel. Interested? Send email to [email protected].