A new virtual museum is bringing the history of Harriet Tubman’s early years to the world. Launched by the Maryland ...

Maryland's Department of Transportation (MDOT) unveiled a new virtual museum displaying artifacts unearthed from the former ...

The home, located in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County, belonged to Tubman's father, Ben Ross. Harriet Tubman was the trailblazing leader of the Underground Railroad ...

A new virtual museum that shows artifacts found at the Maryland home where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her teenage years was unveiled by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) has announced the discovery of numerous artifacts at the site where Harriet ...

An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in 1849; in 1857, she led Ross and her still-enslaved mother, Rit, to Canada.

DORCHESTER COUNTY, Md. — Archaeologists in Maryland have uncovered artifacts believed to have belonged to Harriet Tubman and her father, Ben Ross, at a site deep within the wetlands of ...

THIS IS A COLLECTION FROM BEN ROSS’S HOME PLACE. DOCTOR JULIE CZAPLICKI IS MDOT’S CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST. SHE’S BEEN LEADING THE ARCHITECTURAL DIG IN THE BLACKWATER WILDLIFE REFUGE, WHERE THEY ...

Wiedefeld. Ben Ross’ home was found after an extensive search by MDOT archaelogists in 2021. Harriet Tubman worked alongside her father as a teenager while he was enslaved as a timber foreman.