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Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery State and federal officials announced on Tuesday that they had located the site of the Maryland cabin where the Underground Railroad conductor lived as a young adult. The discovery of a coin from 1808, the year Harriet Tubman’s parents were married, led archaeologists to the site of the cabin.Credit.Maryland Department of Transportation April 20, 2021, 5:38 p.m. ET For at least two decades, historians had been searching for the site of the cabin in which Harriet Tubman lived with her family as a young adult. “Land records told us it was here somewhere,” said Julie M. Schablitsky, the chief archaeologist at the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, who led an excavation of the swampy terrain on Maryland’s Eastern Shore beginning last fall. “We couldn’t understand why we weren’t finding anything. It was like, ‘Where is this place?’”

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