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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania – Selections from a 1945 School Textbook

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.  The well-used copy belonging to the Gratz Historical Society is shown above and now resides in a large collection of texts that were in use in […]

Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania – Part 1 of 3

The Underground Railroad was the name given to a 19th century hidden network of routes by which African-Americans escaped from slavery to freedom – for the most part, to the north and to Canada.  Abolitionists aided the escaping African-Americans and established a series of safe-houses or hiding places along the way as well aiding the […]