May 30, 2025
I took a break from training and visited the Auburn, NY home of Harriet Tubman Davis. Harriet lived in Auburn for 50 years with her family, and she bought property and used one of the buildings as a “Home for the Aged.”
I of course already knew about Tubman’s many trips on the Underground Railroad and how she led over 70 people to freedom, but I did not know she had been a spy and a nurse during the Civil War, and that she was the first USA woman to ever lead a military charge. In 2024, the state of Maryland posthumously awarded her the rank of Brigadier General.
I highly recommend doing the tour at the Harriet Tubman Home. Extremely informative and great historian/guide.
Photo 1: sign at the home
Photo 2: Home for the Aged
Photos 3 and 4: bedroom furniture used by Tubman
Photo 5: Harriet Tubman’s home and barn
Photo 6: parsonage for AME Zion Church
Photo 7-8: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, where Tubman worshipped and where her funeral was held
Photo 9: part of the original church wall design
Photo 10: Tubman’s gravesite
