There are currently 41 sites on the African American Heritage Trail. Scroll down to view the sites on the map. To book a guided tour please visit our tour page.
Oak Bluffs
1. John Saunders
Pulpit Rock Way, County Road, Oak Bluffs
2. Old Marine Cemetery
Shirley Avenue, Oak Bluffs
3. Shearer Cottage
Morgan Avenue, Highlands, Oak Bluffs
4. Baptist Temple Park
Highlands, Oak Bluffs
5. Powell House, “Bunny Cottage”
Dorothy West Avenue, Highlands, Oak Bluffs
6. Home of Dorothy West
Myrtle Avenue, Highlands, Oak Bluffs
7. Coleman’s Corners
Myrtle Avenue, Highlands, Oak Bluffs
8. Home of Carrie Camillo Tankard and George Tankard
Highlands, Oak Bluffs
9. Anne P. Jennings
Highland Avenue, Highlands, Oak Bluffs
10, Landladies of Oak Bluffs
Hiawatha Park, Oak Bluffs
11. Louisa Izett
Lower Circuit Avenue, Oak Bluffs
12. Emma Maitland at the Michael Blanchard Gallery
Dukes County Avenue, Oak Bluffs
13. Cottagers Corners
Pequot Avenue, Oak Bluffs
14. E. Jacqueline Hunt
Nashawena Park, Oak Bluffs
15. Senator Edward Brooke
Nashawena Park, Oak Bluffs
16. Dunmere by the Sea
Inkwell Beach, Oak Bluffs
17. Taylor’s Playfair
14 Pocasset Avenue, Oak Bluffs
18. Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Dukes County Avenue, Oak Bluffs
19. Home of Eunice Rocker
Central Avenue, in the Campground, Oak Bluffs
20. Graves Machine and Tool
Uncas Avenue (at the site of the Barn Bowl & Bistro), Oak Bluffs
21. Robert Hayden
Oak Bluffs Library, School Street, Oak Bluffs
22. Ambler B. Wormley at deBettencourt’s Garage
New York Avenue, Oak Bluffs
23. Villa Rosa
Narragansett Avenue, Oak Bluffs dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King
24. 1970’s Athletic teams at MVRHS
Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, Oak Bluffs
25. Dragonfly House
Seaview Avenue, Oak Bluffs
Edgartown
1. Nancy Michael’s plaque and sculpture
Memorial Wharf, Edgartown
2. Plaque for Escape of Esther (part of the National Network to Freedom)
Upper Wharf, Memorial Wharf, Edgartown
3. William Martin’s gravesite
Chappaquiddick cemetery, Chappaquiddick, Edgartown
4. William and Sarah Martin’s homestead
Chappaquiddick, Edgartown
5. Plaque honoring Frederick Douglass at the Federated Church
South Summer Street, Edgartown
6. Edgartown Court house honoring Judge Herbert E. Tucke, Jr.
Main Street, Edgartown
7. St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal church, honoring formation of the MVNAACP
Church Street, Edgartown
Tisbury
1. Barber Hammond
Main Street, Vineyard Haven
2. Grace Episcopal Church
Woodlawn Avenue, Vineyard Haven
3. Office of the Superintendent of Schools (recognizes pioneers in education)
Pine Street, Vineyard Haven
West Tisbury
1. The Vineyard Five
Music Street, West Tisbury
2. The Nameless Trail at the Martha’s Vineyard
Public Charter School, State Road, West Tisbury
Chilmark
1. Rebecca the Woman of Africa
Great Bight Reserve, North Road, Chilmark
2. Sculpture of Rebecca
Native Earth Teaching Farm, North Road, Chilmark
3. The Rescue of Randall Burton
Menemsha, Chilmark.
Aquinnah
1. Wampanoag Tribe’s rescue of Randall Burton, a fugitive, from enslavement
West Basin, Aquinnah,