We returned through North Carolina on July 27, 2012 but when we were there visiting Vanessa, her husband Earl and their daughter earlier in the month (July 10th), we saw a bridge named the Harriet Tubman Bridge. We also saw the Booker T. Washington Center.
The state legislature honored the Underground Railroad Conductor by naming the future U.S. Highway 17 bridge over the Combahee River "The Harriet Tubman Bridge" The bridge will be just South of where historians think Tubman helped lead a Union Raid on several Plantations that freed more that 750 slaves on the night of June 2, 1863,
We also saw the Booker T. Washington Community Center in the city of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This is a 4.2 acre site located off Highway 64. The mission of the center is to provide an environment that promotes the quality of life, values, and the welfare of the community . . .
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in Virginia to a slave on April 5, 1856. He was an African American educator . He founded the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute in Alabama.
I guess you are close to PA. Doesn't 4 weeks go by so quickly. After reading your entries; I'm ready to go out again! Don't tell Sue!!!
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