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A new 83 room hotel which is located across from the Tanger Outlets.Each room includes free WiFi, microwave, mini-fridge and free hot breakfast. The hotel has an indoor pool, business center and lobby snack shop.

Chaplin, was involved in the failed escape of 77 people from Washington, D.C. was captured on August 8, 1850 during a shoot out with slave catchers on Georgia Avenue. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

Welcome aboard Maryland’s premier charter boat for Striped Bass Fishing, Cruises, Crabbing, Light House Tours, and Water fowl Hunting on the Chesapeake Bay. Located just outside of Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington DC on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Walk through historic Fells Point in Baltimore and see Underground Railroad locations associated with Baltimore abolitionists and sites of resistance. Stop at the places where Frederick Douglass lived, worked, worshiped, and learned how to read, and where he later returned to build five historic townhouses. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

The farm, now part of Monocacy National Battlefield, was once part of a 748-acre plantation known as L'Hermitage. Established by the Vincendieres, a family of French planters from the Caribbean, 50 to 90 enslaved African-Americans worked this plantation in the 18th and 19th centuries. At least two of those slaves fled for freedom. The Best family began farming the property in the 1830s.A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

Mrs. Keckly, best known as Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress, worked on behalf of the newly emancipated enslaved people that sought refuge in the nation's capital. Keckly raised funds and collected donations for their benefit and organized the Contraband Relief Association at Union Bethel AME Church. Keckly was buried in National Harmony Memorial Park on May 28, 1907.A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

Enslaved people who were caught fleeing their enslavers were held in this historic county jail. Others who were charged with encouraging them to run away were jailed here too. An interpretive exhibit describes these cases.

Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman's brother had hoped to marry Jane Kane but her enslaver would not allow for it. Ben arranged for Jane to join him when he and his brothers fled during the Christmas holidays in 1854. Jane disguised in men's clothing to successfully flee. Visitors can paddle to Buttons Creek via Blackwater River. A National Park Service Network to Freedom site.