In 1904 the Harriet Tubman House was founded in Boston's South End neighborhood by six Black women who donated their time, resources, and even their property to establish a settlement house to 'assist working girls (from the South) in charitable ways.' Julia O. Henson (a personal friend of Harriet Tubman), Cornelia Robinson, Annie W. Young, Fannie R. Contine, Jestina A. Johnson, Sylvia Fern and Hibernia Waddell opened the first Tubman House at 25-27 Holyoke Street as a lodging place for Black females who had recently migrated from the South, when many social institutions were closed to African-Americans in Boston. Today, some 86 years later, the Harriet Tubman House of United South End Settlements, located on the corner of Columbus and Massachusetts Avenues, provides a wide range of social services to all needy people in the South End for the development of the community.