Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Church Creek, MD

The waterfront town of Church Creek was a major shipbuilding center. Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman’s father, worked in the surrounding woods identifying the best trees for shipbuilding. During Tubman’s lifetime, scores of enslaved people fled from farms and shipyards in this area. Today, the farms and agricultural landscapes surrounded by water and woods have changed little since the early 19th century, when Tubman and her father lived and worked nearby.