Archaeologists: Site of Harriet Tubman s father s home found
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press
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1of3In this image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, items recovered from an archaeological site on Maryland s Eastern Shore that state officials believe to be the home of Harriet Tubman s father, Ben Ross, are displayed in a case, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Church Creek, Md. (Laury Marshall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)Laury Marshall/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Harriet Tubman in seen in a photograph dating from 1860-75. A Chicago elementary school long named for a biologist who promoted racist ideology will be renamed for abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The renaming of Louis Agassiz Elementary School to Harriet Tubman IB World School comes as part of the Chicago Public Schools’ review of school names. (Harvey B. Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP)Harvey B. Lindsley/APShow MoreShow Le
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Another puzzle piece to the story | Archeologists discover site of home once owned by Harriet Tubman s father in Maryland
“This discovery adds another puzzle piece to the story of Harriet Tubman, the state of Maryland, and our nation,” says Maryland Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford. Author: Associated Press Updated: 2:32 PM EDT April 20, 2021
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Archaeologists in Maryland say they believe they have found the homesite of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s father.
The homesite of Ben Ross was found on property acquired last year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an addition to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, officials said Tuesday. An archaeology team led by the State Highway Administration conducted research that led to the find.
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CHURCH CREEK Archaeologists in Maryland discovered the historic homesite once owned by the father of Harriet Tubman, state officials announced Tuesday.
The former home of Tubman s father, Ben Ross, was discovered on property acquired in 2020 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an addition to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County. I am excited to announce our archaeologists have confirmed that this site was once the home of Ben Ross, and may have been where Harriet Tubman spent her early years, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford said. A breakthrough occurred in March, Rutherford said. Archaeologists uncovered evidence of a homesite and historic artifacts dating back to the early to mid 1800s.
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?’”