Dorchester County Visitor Center at Sailwinds Park on the Choptank River.

Thousands of kidnapped Africans were brought to this shore and enslaved before the practice was made illegal. Slavwery continued, however, with thousands more being shipped south to support the rising demand for cotton.

Dorchester County Courthouse, where Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross) organized one of her first rescues, saving her niece and her niece's two children from being sold into slavery.

The original courthouse burned in 1852 and was replaced by this building in 1854.

The Rock School, a one-room school was moved to this Dorchester County location in 1867. It was used independently of the public system as a classroom until the 1960s.

The Jefferson Methodist Episcopal Church was founded from the joining of faith communities that existed in the black population many years prior to emancipation.

Araminta Ross (Harriet Tubman) was born a few miles from this farm where she spent her childhood learning the joys of family and the agony of slavery.

Tubman was seriously injured during an incident at this general store when she was in her teens. The resulting visions and seizures lasted a lifetime.

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

A spectacular meal at Legal Assets in Easton, Maryland.

The next morning we returned to the wildlife refuge

Great Blue Heron

Eagle on osprey platform. Across the marsh is the visitor center.

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret or Great White Heron