Join historian John Mueller Thursday, Dec. 5 from 10am to 11am for a walking tour — the debut tour for a series of tours scheduled for launch and/or further development in 2020 and beyond — on the lost history of the Underground Railroad, Civil War and Reconstruction in Caroline County.
The walking tour will cover individuals and institutions from the Choptanks, Shadrach Bassett, Frederick (Bailey) Douglass, Harriet Ross Tubman Davis, Patty Cannon, Moses Viney, Alexander Walker Wayman, Perry Bailey, Anna Murray Douglass, Stephen Bailey and family, William Burney, George Alfred Townsend, Henry Augustus Monroe, Dennis F. Groce, Denton Steamboat Wharf, Caroline County Courthouse, Bailey-Wayman School, Union Bethel AME Church and abandoned railroad tracks, real and ephemeral, of the Delmarva.
Tour begins at the Wharves of Choptank Visitor and Heritage Center in Denton and ends at Nich’s Coffee Shop, Third Street, Denton. Tickets are available in advance online at eventbrite.com.