Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland: St. Mary’s College
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Park Service has added 16 new listings to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom across 11 states, joining 700 sites, facilities and programs already in the network. They all provide insight into the diverse experiences of freedom seekers who bravely escaped slavery and those who assisted them, according to a press release from the National Park Service.
“It’s fitting to welcome new additions to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom as we celebrate Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday,” Diane Miller, national program manager of the Network to Freedom, said in the announcement.
A statue of Harriet Tubman in the Maryland State House: Glynn Wilson
“Like Harriet Tubman, the freedom seekers and allies highlighted in each Network to Freedom listing remind us of what can be accomplished when people take action against injustice,” she said. “Each listing holds a unique part of the Underground Railroad story, and we look forward to working with members to amplify the power of these places.”
The Network to Freedom’s newest listings are:
* Marianna Expedition on Santa Rosa Island (Site, Florida, Gulf Islands National Seashore)
* Winterset Cemetery (Site, Iowa)
* Dinsmore Homestead (Site, Kentucky)
* LeCompte Plantation (Today known as Magnolia Plantation; Site, Louisiana, Cane River Creole National Historical Park)
* Emmanuel Prudhomme Plantation (Today known as Oakland Plantation; Site, Louisiana, Cane River Creole National Historical Park)
* Mass Escape at Mackall Plantation (Today known as St. Mary’s College; Site, Maryland)
* Port Tobacco Jail Sites (Site, Maryland)
* St. Stephens A.M.E. Church Cemetery, Unionville (Site, Maryland)
* Robert Gould Shaw 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial (Site, Massachusetts)
* Elijah Fish and George Taylor Burial Sites at Greenwood Cemetery (Site, Michigan)
* Huntoon-Van Rensalier Underground Railroad Site (Site, New Jersey)
* Presbyterian Plane Street Colored Church (Today known as Frederick Douglass Field; Site, New Jersey)
* Rev. Robert Everett and Family Gravesite, Capel Ucha Welsh Congregational Church Cemetery (Site, New York)
* Spring Grove Cemetery (Site, Ohio)
* Cozad-Bates House Interpretive Center (Program, Ohio)
* Destination Freedom Underground Railroad Walking Tour (Program, Pennsylvania)
Many National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom sites are privately owned. If the site is not open to the public, the National Park Service asks that the privacy of the site owner be respected.
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