Thomas Garrett Route to Longwood Meeting
Centreville
This historic crossroads community was the scene of a violent clash between a group of 14 freedom seekers and rowdy Irishmen on Halloween night, 1857. The fugitives’ story started on […]
Henry A. Craigg, Jr Home Site
Joseph Walker Home Site
The Wilmington Underground Railroad network included residents with vastly different backgrounds, living in all neighborhoods of the city. The Black agents clustered between the city core and west to Quaker […]
Elwood Garrett House
Friends Meeting House and Cemetery
Quaker Hill Historic District
Whispers of Angels, A Story of the Underground Railroad “Defiant, brave and free, the great abolitionists Thomas Garrett, William Still and Harriet Tubman, along with hundreds of lesser known and […]
Thomas Garrett Home Site
One of the most important figures working on the Underground Railroad in Delaware was Thomas Garrett (1789-1871), a prominent Wilmington Quaker who devoted his life to the abolition of slavery […]
Wilmington – Old Town Hall
When Old Town Hall opened in 1799 as the seat of government for Wilmington, Delaware, captured freedom seekers were held in the basement cells during the same period that the […]
Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park and Market Street Bridge
The unique partnership between Harriet Tubman and Quaker abolitionist Thomas Garrett is commemorated in this park with interpretive signage and an engaging sculpture dedicated in 2012. The Market Street Bridge […]
