Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Long Wharf on the Choptank, MD

Long Wharf was the center of activity in 19th-century Cambridge, when people and goods traveled by boat to the booming town on the Choptank River. From Cambridge, fleeing slaves had to follow the river north to Delaware. In 1858, a mob waited here for Hugh Hazlett and eight freedom seekers who had fled and were caught near Denton. Fearing violence upon their return, the sheriff was forced to send the boat carrying the nine men to another dock.