The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania (2 of 3)
In the first blog post of this series of three, some basic information was given about the hidden network of escape routes known as the Underground Railroad. The basic impression […]
In the first blog post of this series of three, some basic information was given about the hidden network of escape routes known as the Underground Railroad. The basic impression […]
Police: 2 Teens Burned Cross at Woman’s Home ELIZABETHVILLE – Two teenage boys have been charged in a cross-burning incident at the northern Dauphin County home of a black woman. […]
ELIZABETHVILLE – The YWCA of Greater Harrisburg is helping a Dauphin County woman who was the victim of a cross burning. Ashley Brooks, 29, is a black single mother of […]
Eight African Americans have been identified in the Census of 1830, Gratz, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1830 Census was the second in which Gratz was recognized as a […]
A portrait of Levi Coffin (1798-1877) – “President” of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was the name given to a 19th century hidden network of routes by which African-Americans […]
POLICE: BOYS BURN CROSS ON LAWN ELIZABETHVILLE – Two boys were charged on Wednesday for burning a 2-foot cross at 6 P.M., January 22 [2015) on a lawn in Washington […]
Eight African Americans have been identified in the Census of 1840, Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. All eight were in the same household, that of Peter Crabb, identified as Peter […]
Herbert E. Stover‘s Pennsylvania: A History of Our State was a textbook in use in the schools in the Lykens Valley area in 1945 and for some years afterward. Old […]