Community Calendar

The Community Calendar

A central part of LancasterHistory’s mission is to support the needs and interests of history-oriented organizations in our region and to bring into greater focus the extraordinary opportunities for learners of all ages to experience America’s past in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. LancasterHistory is proud to provide this Community Calendar to highlight upcoming events of history-focused institutions and organizations. Looking for LancasterHistory’s main events calendar? View events calendar.

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America250 Family Day 

Who: Historic Rock Ford 

When: Sunday, June 7 | 10am-4pm 

Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602

Cost: Event is free but registration is requested for planning purposes.

Join us for family friendly America250 activities during this free event at Historic Rock Ford including:

  • Crafts
  • Themed activities in the General Edward Hand Mansion and “Lancaster’s Revolutionaries” Exhibit in the Snyder Gallery
  • Interact with living historians including:
    1st Rhode Island Regiment
    Leslie Bramlett as Hannah Till
    Historical cricket games with Tom Melville
    Concessions will be available. All proceeds benefit Historic Rock Ford.

Event is rain or shine. Find out more information at https://www.historicrockford.org/ 

Leaders & Liberators: Harriet Tubman and Her Columbia Connections

Who: The African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania 

When: Sunday, June 21 | 5pm-7:30pm 

Where: Saint Paul Episcopal Church, 340 Locust Street, Columbia, PA 

Cost:  Free & open to the public 

A dramatic reading of an original script, Leaders and Liberators portrays an imagined meeting on July 4, 1872 in Cape May, New Jersey between Harriet Tubman and two abolitionist allies from Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Reverend Stephen Smith and William Whipper.  These three influential leaders of the Underground Railroad movement were courageous conductors and agents who led hundreds to freedom through the anti-slavery network of the Underground Railroad, from the 1830s through the 1850s. 

Portraying Harriet Tubman will be Raquel Richardson. The part of William Whipper will be presented by the Reverend Eric Jackson. Nelson Polite, Jr. will portray Reverend Stephen Smith. Accomplished actors in period theatre, the trio will present a historically informed script authored by Lancaster historian Randolph Harris and his wife, the Reverend Martha Harris, Rector, Saint Paul Episcopal Church, Columbia, Pennsylvania. The Reverend Dr. Patricia S. McAllister, retired pastor of Mt. Zion AME Church in Columbia, will serve as the Interlocutor who will set the period scene and introduce the presenters. Reverends McAllister and Jackson will facilitate a post-production dialogue with the actors.

The event is sponsored by the African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania, the Underground Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, the Stephen Smith Community Development and Multicultural Center, and Saint Paul Episcopal Church.  

Celebrate America250 at Historic Rock Ford

Who: Historic Rock Ford 

When: Thursday, July 3 & Friday, July 4 | 10am-4pm 

Where: 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602

Cost: Yes, tickets or registration are required, but may be purchased in advance or at-the-door.

Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday at Historic Rock Ford! Our two-day celebration on July 2 and 3 will offer various free, fun, and educational activities throughout the day, including:

  • Live musicians
  • Self-guided tours of the circa 1794 General Hand Mansion
  • Living Historians and Sutlers, both military and civilian around the grounds
  • Lancaster’s Revolutionaries exhibit in the Snyder Gallery
  • Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations
  • Children’s scavenger hunt
  • Period dance demonstrations
  • And more!

This event is free, but registration is recommended for planning purposes. This event is rain or shine. Find out more information at https://www.historicrockford.org/