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The Study Area
The main identified places in Harriet Tubman's
life and work are Dorchester
County, Maryland, where she was born and grew up, and Auburn,
New York, her home for nearly 50 years. In addition, Tubman
is known to have worked in many other places, during the Underground
Railroad period when she was escorting former slaves out of the
south, and during the Civil War when she worked for the Union army.
There are many Underground Railroad sites in the
country, but only a few are connected with Tubman. Likewise there
are Tubman sites which have no relationship with the Underground
Railroad. Our study will focus only on Tubman sites.
The success of this special resource study depends
on information from those who have particular knowledge of Tubman
and the places where she lived and worked. We would like your help
in identifying these places. Your suggestions will be pursued by
the study team and subjected to expert analysis and park system
criteria and will help shape the special resource study's recommendations.
Tell the study team about
sites you know of.
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