Cannonball

A few months ago, I was among a small group of fellow history buffs who were invited on a personal tour of the historic Mifflin House, known to its Quaker…

…the coast was clear, the Mifflin family’s longtime friend Robert Loney escorted them to the river and rowed them safely to Columbia. Another time, Mifflin received a female fugitive, her…

…of those historic homes, the Hoke House and the Mifflin House, are threatened with eventual destruction from developers. Of the two, the Mifflin House (owned by Jacob Huber when the…

…Pennsylvania. Not only was this the sturdy home of Underground Railroad Quaker conductors Jonathan and Susanna Mifflin and their equally active son Samuel W. Mifflin in the first half of…

…firing from the old home of some of the area’s more anti-slavery activists, the Mifflin family. Samuel and Susannah (Wright) Mifflin, and later their son Samuel, had led the early…

…events. The Mifflin house in Hellam Township northwest of Wrightsville has been in the news repeatedly in recent years because of the multi-faceted efforts to save the structure and some…

…(2010, University of Tennessee Press) is J. Jacob Oswandel’s personal reminiscence, Notes on the Mexican War, 1846-1848. The original book dates from 1885. Oswandel, a native of Mifflin County, was…

…Samuel] Mifflin, [Jonathan] Jessop, [Dr. Webster] Lewis, [Joseph] Wickersham, [Amos] Griest, and [William C.] Goodrich [actually Goodridge]. He described many thrilling incidents which grew out of attempts to recapture slaves…

…J. Jacob Oswandel, the Mifflin County man who chronicled the story of the York delegation in his 1885 book based upon his war-time diary, outlined the fight which claimed his…

…looked at the Mifflins, who were major conductors in the Underground Railroad in eastern York County, Pennsylvania, during the 1810-1840 time frame. Scores (perhaps hundreds) of freedom seekers passed through…