Dunmere by the Sea will join the African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard as site number 34.

The Nameless Trail honors people who were enslaved on the Vineyard and those who escaped with help from Islanders.

The TrailsMV app now includes more than a dozen sites from the African-American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard.

Edgartown Harbor was recently named a site on the Underground Railroad as part of 12 new listings made this year.

Twenty years ago, the African American Heritage Trail
History Project was born. Its mission was to research and disseminate the story of people of color on Martha’s Vineyard and to celebrate those stories by placing a series of engraved bronze plaques throughout the Island. In the early days, the goal was to have four sites that would be visible to all, and perhaps some day more could be added. There are now 30 sites and more to come.

The Edgartown courthouse was celebrated as the 30th site on the African American Heritage Trail, with a plaque honoring district court judge Herbert Tucker.

The African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard will dedicate a plaque honoring Judge Herbert E. Tucker Jr., at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

The words of Frederick Douglass rang out from the Federated Church in Edgartown Tuesday, as readers recited the abolitionist orator’s famous speech.