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This engraving, titled “Escaping from Norfolk, Virginia in Captain Lee’s skiff,” is featured in CBMM’s upcoming special exhibition Sailing to Freedom. Engraving, 1872 by C.H. Reed, from William Still, The Underground Rail Road.

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Sailing to Freedom exhibition set to open September 27, 2024

August 29, 2024Across Our Desk

ST. MICHAELS, MD The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is pleased to announce its latest exhibition, Sailing to Freedom: The Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad, will open to guests on Friday, September 27, 2024 in the Changing Exhibitions Gallery. Opening during International Underground Railroad month and running through 2025, this special exhibition explores the lesser-known […]

Adkins Arboretum Receives Network to Freedom Grant to Develop Underground Railroad Interpretive Experience

July 8, 2021Across Our Desk

RIDGELY, MD – Adkins Arboretum has been awarded a National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) grant to develop and produce a self-guided virtual tour and interpretive storytelling experience. The project will increase the awareness of the link between nature and the Underground Railroad and will highlight ways the environment helped and […]

Harriet Tubman Day

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020Steve Atkinson

Today, March 10th, is Harriet Tubman Day. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, MD. Her birth date is unknown although believed to be around 1822. She was one of nine children born between 1808 and 1832 to enslaved parents. Her mother, Harriet “Rit” Green, was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess. Her father, […]