The leading newspaper in York PA strongly supported the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and chastised the governor for obstructing it after the Christiana Riot.
Underground Railroad Archives
The controversial 1842 Supreme Court decision in the Prigg vs. Pennsylvania legal case was a spark on the path to civil war. It had York County roots.
Civil War Trails has installed two new wayside markers in Wrightsville commemorating the Mifflin House and the Underground Railroad and Civil War skirmish.
Lewisberry’s Dr. Webster Lewis and his son Robert, a physician in Dover, were among the early conductors in York County’s Underground Railroad movement.
This is a back view of the old furnace stack at the Joanna Furnace near
On Sunday evening, March 18, 2018, I presented a PowerPoint talk on the defense of
Amanda Berry was born a slave near Long Green in Baltimore County, Maryland. She and
Jacob Wirt was a prominent 19th-century businessman and civic leader in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He owned
In 1885, a McSherrystown, PA, newspaper editor deemed William Arter (as he misspelled Otter) as
Battle to save Underground Railroad Station marks 154th anniversary of Rebel invasion of York County
Today marks the 154th anniversary of the beginning of the Confederate invasion of York County,