Near Tubman's probable birth site, Peter's Neck area, near Harrisville Road south of present day Madison in Dorchester County, MD.
Bucktown Village Store interior. Though this building may not have been standing when Tubman suffered her terrible head injury at the hands of an irate overseer, this location is the probable site of this life altering event. Bucktown, Maryland.
Stewart's Canal [Coursey's Creek], facing northeast. Completed during the early 1830s, this canal was built with the labor of enslaved and free African Americans, including, possibly, members of Harriet Tubman's extended family. Dorchester County, Maryland.
Marker dedicated to Harriet Tubman's memory, located at the former Brodess Farm site, where Harriet Tubman spent portions of her childhood enslaved by Edward Brodess. Near Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland.
...As the only woman working in the forests on a timber gang, Harriet Tubman became part of an exclusively male world. Here, beyond the watchful eye of white masters, Tubman's father and others passed along the map of communication networks that were the provenance of black men.... These men communicated with the black mariners whose ships carried the timber to the Baltimore shipyards.... They were part of a larger world, a world beyond the plantation, beyond the woods, to towns and cities up and down the Chesapeake Bay, to Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. They knew the safe places, they knew the sympathetic whites, and, more importantly, they knew the danger. They created an invisible world, a world parallel to the white master's world. A world necessarily unknown, veiled, and secret. Tubman's unique ability to effectively use this complicated network, combined with well-practiced skills of disguise and deception mastered through generations of enslavement, set her apart from other slave women and men in her community...
