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The Cultural Landscape at Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
Our nation has a rich legacy of cultural landscapes – from carriage roads to battlefields, designed gardens to vernacular homesteads, and industrial complexes to river valley settlements. The NPS Park Cultural Landscapes Program promotes the stewardship of significant landscapes through research, planning, maintenance, training, and education.
This video introduces the cultural landscape at Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and invites viewers to learn more. NPS staff from the park, descendants of Harriet Tubman, and other people associated with the area describe the features and significance of this unique landscape and actions that have been taken to preserve it.
This video, announced on March 10 in honor of Harriet Tubman Day, is the latest in a series of videos designed to facilitate the transfer of knowledge gained through cultural landscape research and communicate unique aspects of a particular landscape’s history and significance.
- Watch other videos in the series and find audio-described versions: Cultural Landscape Video Series from the NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
The Legacy and Landscape of Harriet Tubman
To help honor Harriet Tubman’s first attempt at self-emancipation on September 17, 1849, the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation has created a short video highlighting Harriet Tubman, the remarkable landscape of Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Maryland, and some of the cultural landscape research they’ve conducted there to date.
“The Cultural Landscape at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park” is the latest addition to the Olmsted Center’s cultural landscape video series. Each video highlights the unique aspects of a particular landscape’s history and significance, and together they help to communicate the process and outcomes of cultural landscape research.
- Find the full series at the link below, or at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation website
Stewart’s Canal at dusk, at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park (NPS).
Discover More
- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park website
- Underground Railroad: More on this subject from the National Park Service
- Journeying toward Freedom and New Beginnings: A cultural landscape perspective of Harriet Tubman and the Jacob Jackson home site on the Eastern Store of Maryland
- Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation video series (YouTube)
- More about NPS cultural landscapes
