DORCHESTER COUNTY, Md. (7News) — As Maryland celebrates Harriet Tubman Day, Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) archaelogists reveal that they have found new artifacts from the famed abolitionist’s family home.
For the past four years, MDOT archaeologists have been processing hundreds of artifacts found on the land where Tubman’s father’s home used to stand in the wetlands of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.
“Pieces of plates, pitchers, bowls and more found at the site of Harriet Tubman’s father’s home give us more insight to how the family lived two hundred years ago,” said Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld…