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Harriet Tubman Home

Address: 180 South St., Auburn, NY, 13021 | Map It
Phone: 315/252-2081

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Auburn

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The property's simple white clapboard house is where, beginning in 1890, Harriet Tubman tended to elderly African-Americans; the adjacent brick house served as her primary residence. Before Emancipation, Tubman led more than 300 slaves to freedom in the North. At the encouragement of William Seward, an abolitionist who served in two presidential cabinets, she settled in Auburn in the late 1850s. Seward and his family lived on the same road, a mile closer to town. The brick house isn't open to the public, but Tubman's carved wooden bed and her Bible are displayed in the white clapboard building. The site is now run by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, to which Tubman deeded the property before her death in 1913. The church structure where Tubman attended AME Zion services still stands in Auburn, near Fort Hill Cemetery. Tour hours shift, so call ahead.

Cost: $4.50
Open: Feb.-Oct., Tues.-Fri. 10-4, Sat. 10-3; Nov.-Jan., by appointment

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