A marker and public site commemorate Harriet Tubman's 1856 effort to guide an enslaved woman known as Tilly through the Seaford area toward freedom. It is a precise physical stop tied to one of Tubman's documented rescue missions.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: archives.delaware.gov/delaware-historical-markers/gateway-to-freedom-the-tilly-escape/