Tubman Town: New face of $20 could be honored with US park

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — Harriet Tubman's upcoming debut on the $20 bill is just half the good news in the upstate New York town where the Underground Railroad conductor settled down and grew old.

A long-sought national historical park here honoring Tubman could be officially established as early as this summer.

[...] she can take pleasure in the new $20 bill, the national park and a planned TV biography under development starring Viola Davis.

The old brick house is closed for remodeling, but visitors can visit an interpretive center and walk through the home for the aged, where she died.

The transition to a national park is complicated, involving two parcels of land and the purchase of a historic easement on the larger property.

Hill looks forward to having the house reopened and bringing back Tubman's apple orchard and more.