Educational field trip to Harriet Tubman's house in Auburn, N.Y. She lived to 91, and would have been 201 years old this year.
The house where she lived in Auburn. The original wood structure burned down and was rebuilt out of brick on the same foundation.She's buried under a big pine tree at Fort Hill Cemetery, about a mile from her home.Statue of Harriet Tubman outside the visitors center.Harriet Tubman's house has never been open for tours, but we were allowed to peek in the windows. It's not in great shape; all the plaster has fallen off the walls and dried leaves piled up in the rooms.You know how you used to be able to touch the Liberty Bell, but not anymore? Right now you can still touch Harriet Tubman's house, but that might change too.The Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, a nursing home she opened next to her house.This is William Seward's house in Auburn, N.Y. Seward was a New York state governor, a U.S. senator and secretary of state for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He was also the guy who bought Alaska, a purchase ridiculed as "Seward's folly"... until GOLD was discovered. And the Klondike Gold Rush turned Seattle into a big booming city. So thanks, William Seward.
