Christiana High School, class of 1954. Mr. Rintz, teacher. Students, back row: Gil Evanson, William Hanna, Ann Hartman Gregg, Shirley Frackman, Tom Wolfe, Tom Skiles. Front row: Mary Lou Kenworthy, Louise Shivery Stauffer, Raymond Mills, Jean Pinkerton Leaman, John James Hawk, Laverne Engle, Gary Kendig.
Survivors of the Christiana Resistance by W. S. Gleim
Provenance
See Object file 2023.001.163 for more information. Donation by Mrs. Margaret Smith in 1957 includes projector (2023.001.163) and slides 2002.091.38-40, 42, 43 & 2002.095.30,32.
See Object file 2023.001.163 for more information. Donation by Mrs. Margaret Smith in 1957 includes projector (2023.001.163) and slides 2002.091.38-40, 42, 43 & 2002.095.30,32.
Pownell House, near scene of the Christiana Resistance by W.. Gleim
Provenance
See Object file 2023.001.163 for more information. Donation by Mrs. Margaret Smith in 1957 includes projector (2023.001.163) and slides 2002.091.38-40, 42, 43 & 2002.095.30,32.
Graduating class of Christiana High School. Reading from left to right : Lower row : Alice E. Brown, Hazel Mendenhall, William McFarland, Herbert Zook, Grace Pinkerton. Second Row : Alta Eckert , Josephine Walker, Robert Smallwood, Elizabeth Stokes, Elsie Ray. Back : Miss Margaret F. Brown, Assistant Principal, and Mr. John G. Davidson, Principal
Monument of granite at Christiana in commemoration of the riot of 1851 and the resultant treason trials. The event known as the "Christiana Resistance" was engendered when southern slave owners came to Lancaster County in search of runaway slaves. Erected in 1911.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
