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"My home, after all, was down in Maryland..."

Experience Harriet Tubman's home, where she was born into slavery, grew into a young woman determined to gain freedom, and where she returned to rescue her family and friends to bring them north to freedom.

In the heart of Dorchester County, Maryland, amid farm fields, creeks, and marshes, the Maryland State Park Service and the National Park Service have teamed up to present the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center. Offering exhibits, an audio-visual program, visitor information, a museum store, research library, and seasonal interpretive programs, the visitor center will be the central hub for understanding Tubman's life, legacy, and the landscapes and waterways that remain preserved just as this remarkable freedom fighter would recall.

For visitor center hours and seasonal offerings, check our Operating Hours and Seasons page.

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Stewart's canal is a beautiful testimony to the incredible labor and craftsmanship of the free and enslaved African Americans who constructed it.

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Along the Harriet Tubman Byway, stop by Stewart's Canal, a 7-mile canal hand-dug by free and enslaved African Americans between 1810 and 1832 for commercial transportation. Tubman learned important outdoor skills navigating the canal and working in nearby timbering operations with her father, Ben Ross. Stewart's Canal is part of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, and while part of the National Monument, will continue to be owned, operated, and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.