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1859
The Sewards sold Tubman the land in 1859 and held the mortgage
In 1859 Harriet Tubman moved with her parents into a wood-framed home at 180 South Street, on the outskirts of Auburn. She bought the property from Frances Adeline Seward, wife of the abolitionist senator William H. Seward. Because Tubman was a fugitive, the Sewards held the mortgage as a private loan and were flexible about payments.
The Home
Tubman bought 25 acres in 1896 for a home for the elderly
In 1896 Tubman bought a 25-acre parcel next door, at 182 South Street. It became the Home for the Aged, her dream of a home for poor and elderly African Americans. In 1903 she could no longer afford it and donated it to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, which agreed to keep running the Home. It opened in 1908.
1911
In 1911 Tubman was admitted to the Home herself
In 1911 Tubman was admitted to the Home herself, and she remained there until 1913. The Home continued for a couple more years and then closed. The house became vacant in 1928 and was demolished in 1944. In 1953 it was rebuilt and restored in memory of her life, organized by the AME Zion Church to which she had given the property.
2017
The park was created in 2017, the 51st national historical park
The park was established on January 10, 2017, at a signing ceremony at the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. It was the 51st National Historical Park and the 414th unit of the national park system. The park focuses on the later years of Tubman's life. The properties are also a National Historic Landmark, first declared in 1974, with two others added in 2001.
“...never lost a passenger”
Harriet Tubman, later, on her missions
Before Auburn
Tubman was born into slavery and made some 13 rescue missions
Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by enslavers as a child. She escaped to Philadelphia in 1849. She then made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She was known as the "Moses of her people."
Day 3, midday
It comes after Women’s Rights National Historical Park. Then William H. Seward House.
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