Kennett Heritage Center
Kennett Square's local-history museum, on North Union. A good stop for the town's Underground Railroad and mushroom-country past.
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Kennett Underground Railroad Bus Tour
A bus ride out to the safe houses and Quaker farms that moved people north out of Maryland. Two hours and fifteen minutes, thirty dollars, leaving from the Heritage Center on Union Street.
Kennett Underground Railroad Heritage Bus Tour
A two-hour narrated bus ride to documented Underground Railroad sites, Quaker meetinghouses and abolitionist homes around Kennett. Thirty dollars, fifteen for kids under fourteen, leaving from the Heritage Center on Union Street.
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