Travel with Tubman. NPS Photo / Pollock.
The tour
Travel with Tubman, a trip-planning tool in the free National Park Service App, links 13 places important to Harriet Tubman's life and legacy. It was created by the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park for the bicentennial of Tubman's birth.
After freeing herself, Tubman returned to Maryland 13 times to lead family and friends out of slavery. She traveled the East Coast raising money for freedom seekers, served as a nurse and scout in the Civil War, and fought for women's suffrage. Unlike a single park's guide, the tour spans Network to Freedom sites, national parks and partners up and down the coast.
To use it: download the NPS App and search for Boston African American National Historical Park, Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park or Independence National Historical Park.
Suggested stops
| Place | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Church Creek, Maryland | Tubman grew up on the Eastern Shore and first resisted here; exhibits on her legacy and the regional Underground Railroad, amid coastal marsh |
| Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park, Wilmington, Delaware | honors the friendship of Tubman and Quaker Thomas Garrett in their key years of work, about 1854–1860 |
| William Still marker, 244 S. 12th Street, Philadelphia | where William Still, who aided countless freedom seekers, wrote The Underground Railroad, still central to how it is understood |
| Beach boardwalk, South Cape May Meadows, New Jersey | freedom seekers reached Cape May across the dangerous Delaware Bay; a place to reflect on slave and free states facing each other |
| Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston | honors one of the first Black regiments of the Civil War |
| Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, Albany, New York | Black abolitionists whose home sheltered freedom seekers and hosted the Albany Vigilance Committee in the 1850s |
| Gerrit Smith Estate, New York | home of a leader of New York abolition; a National Historic Landmark with outdoor exhibits on its seven acres |
| Harriet Tubman Home, Auburn, New York | Tubman bought 7 acres here in 1859 and brought her family from St. Catharines, Canada. After a fire in 1880, they built a brick house in 1882, where she lived until her death in 1913 |
| Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church, Auburn | built in 1891, a cornerstone of Auburn's Black community, where Tubman worshipped; National Historic Landmark in 1974, acquired by the Park Service in 2017 |
| Smith Opera House, Geneva, New York | hosted Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw and Tubman at the 29th convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Tubman was listed as a life member in 1911 |
"The Conductor"
"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
— Harriet Tubman, at a suffrage convention in New York, 1896
Travelers can print "The Conductor" — a coloring sheet or a cut-out photo of Tubman — to take along, and share pictures from Tubman sites with #TravelWithTubman.
Let Harriet Tubman guide you. NPS Photo / Pollock.
The NPS App
The Park Service's free official app, for iOS and Android, covers more than 400 national parks, with interactive maps, tours, accessibility information and more, made by rangers for visitors.
The tour was built with many partners, among them Auburn and Cayuga County tourism groups, Fort Monroe National Monument, the Harriet Tubman Byway, Harriet Tubman Home, Inc., I LOVE NY, the Maryland Office of Tourism, the New York State Equal Rights Heritage Center, the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, the National Parks of Boston, Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, Riverfront Wilmington, the Smith Opera House, the Underground Railroad Education Center and the Harriet Tubman Memorial AME Zion Church.
Sources
Based on "Travel with Tubman," National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain. The page lists ten of the tour's thirteen places.
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