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On September 11, 1851, a deputy U.S. marshal led a raid in Christiana, Lancaster County to recover four enslaved persons of Edward Gorsuch of Maryland in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Free Blacks and freedom seekers in the surrounding area met this raid with a successful, but deadly, armed resistance. The Fugitive […]
Read MoreThe LeFevre Bible is one of the most requested items from our collections. The Bible belonged to the French Huguenot family of Isaac LeFevre. These images show the genealogy of Isaac LeFevre, the person to bring this Bible from France to present-day Lancaster County. He survived the massacre of his family and townspeople after the […]
Read More“I have ambitions to be an aviatrix, to follow the interest of my father…I have a great deal of flying to do before catching up with him.” Helen Jones Carter (1920-1998) was the eldest daughter of pilot Jesse Jones, aviator, flight instructor, and manager of the Lancaster Airport. She and her two sisters, Jessie and […]
Read MoreLancaster City’s first female police officer, Agnes Ferriter, served on the force from 1923 to 1946.