Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
Maryland park honoring Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad work.
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is a 480-acre National Park Service unit in Maryland. It commemorates the life of Harriet Tubman, a formerly enslaved person who became an Underground Railroad activist before the American Civil War. The park originated from a national monument created by President Barack Obama in 2013 and was later designated a National Historical Park in 2014.
History
Before the National Historical Parks in Maryland and New York were established, President Barack Obama created the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Dorchester County, Maryland, under the Antiquities Act on March 25, 2013. Section 3035 of Public Law 113-291, signed on December 19, 2014, required the Secretary of the Interior to administer the historical park and the NPS portion of the monument as a single unit. The sister park in Auburn and Fleming, New York, was established on January 10, 2017.
Description
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park covers 480 acres in Maryland, including the Jacob Jackson Home site near Cambridge, Windy Hill, and Preston across Dorchester, Talbot, and Caroline counties. The park’s authorizing law also permitted the future addition of over 4,200 acres in those three counties. The Jackson property was given to the federal government by The Conservation Fund for the original monument that later became this historical park.
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- Wikipedia: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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