The bloodiest day, the Naval Academy, and the Underground Railroad
Three Maryland landscapes that anchor the state's Civil War, naval, and Underground Railroad histories. KFDK Frederick Municipal puts you 22nm from Antietam National Battlefield — the September 17, 1862 fight that killed 22,717 in twelve hours and gave Lincoln the political cover to issue the Emancipation Proclamation five days later. East to KMTN Martin State on the Patapsco River, 30nm SW to Annapolis: the U.S. Naval Academy (founded 1845) on the Severn River, with the John Paul Jones crypt under the chapel dome, the 1772 Maryland State House where Washington resigned his commission, and the historic harbor. South across the Bay to KCGE Cambridge-Dorchester on the Eastern Shore — Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park preserves 17,000 acres of the Bucktown landscape where Tubman was born around 1822 and later returned to lead 70 people to freedom. Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (30,000 acres of tidal marsh, major Atlantic Flyway stop) sits inside the park boundary.