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Explore with us the exploits of Harriet Tubman
and the places where she left her mark. This 19th century heroine
had multiple roles - she was a "conductor" in the Underground Railroad,
a nurse and spy and scout in the Civil War, a suffragist, and a
humanitarian. In her later years she founded a home for the indigent
aged. She is an American icon -- a legend -- yet the actual places
associated with her life and her work are not well known. This study
will explore those places and the stories they tell.
The Harriet Tubman Special
Resource Study, is a project of the National Park Service to
evaluate sites connected with Harriet Tubman. We expect to send
a report to Congress by the end of 2006 on
the places associated with Tubman
giving an evaluation of their significance and assessing the possibility
of including them in the national park system. Two places in particular
will be studied -- Auburn, New York, where Tubman lived for her
last five decades, and Dorchester County, Maryland, where she was
born and raised. And there are other places that may still have
resources connected with Tubman.
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