I saw Susanna Davison selling geraniums at the London Grove Meeting Plant Sale this morning and she asked me to mention that the Kennett Underground Railroad Center's first guided bus tour of the season will take place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 15 (she is one of the tour guides). Tourgoers will get to learn about the homes of several abolitionists; will visit a fascinating neighborhood in Kennett Square that was integrated in the nineteenth century; will tour an 1801 Quaker Meetinghouse; and will visit the new Kennett Underground Railroad Center, located in the original home of abolitionists Eusebius and Sarah Barnard.
For more information about the bus tour, see the Center's website at kennettundergroundrr.org. The tour will also be held on June 26, July 17, August 21, and September 18.
The Center is also participating in a May 21 symposium at Lincoln University about African-American communities in Chester County and surrounding areas in the 19th century, such as "the African American communities of Hinsonville (now Lincoln University), the Christiana area, Timbuckto, and others."
The conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University's Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel.
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