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Recognizes Monday, March 10, 2026, as Harriet Tubman Day in New York State, honoring the abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor who made Auburn, New York her permanent home

Auburn will host free public programming at the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and an evening event at the New York State Equal Rights Heritage Center on this date

March 10th was established as a Day of Commemoration in New York in 2003, marking the date of Tubman's death in 1913 when she was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn

Maryland posthumously commissioned Tubman as a Brigadier General in November 2024 for her Civil War service as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy for the Union Army in South Carolina

Tubman escaped slavery in 1849, became an Underground Railroad conductor, and later established a home for elderly and indigent African Americans in Auburn