Harriet Tubman National Historic Park



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Went to visit what I thought was a National park site dedicated to Harriet Tubman. Turns out that National Historic Site is still in the fledgling stages of development. The location is Auburn, NY in the Finger Lakes. The location is the site of the home Harriet made for herself after helping to relocate as many as 80 slaves north of the Mason Dixon line. 

Harriet settled  here and purchased some property from Secretary of Stare Seward. She developed the property into a pig farm and she built a boarding house.  She ultimately built a home for the aged on her property. The White House below is the location of the house for the aged that she helped start. She was very involved with the AME ZION church and it is the church that is now running tours at the properties that she once owned. The church is trying to work with the Park. Service to remodel the home that Harriet owned. Hopefully soon that will be the location of the visitor center.  







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