Photo By/Credit
Tim Pratt/Maryland Department of Transportation
Date Shot/Created
03/25/2021Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
A historic coin found by archaeologists at the Ben Ross homesite at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. Ben Ross was the father of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who rescued some 70 people from slavery. The coin is dated 1808.
Ecosystem
Coastal