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Resistance at Christiana; the fugitive slave rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851: a documentary account

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Author: Katz, Jonathan,

Date of Publication: [1974]

Call Number: 974.80323 K18

ISBN: 0690003072

Author: Katz, Jonathan,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crowell

Date of Publication: [1974]

Physical Description: viii, 359 p. illus. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; African American Resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: The book details the events leading up to and following the " Christiana Riot " in 1851. African Americans in Christiana, Pennsylvania, repulsed the efforts of a Maryland slave owner to capture escaped slaves. The encounter resulted in the death of the slave owner and the trial for treason of several men. The charges were based on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which required citizens to assist in the return of escaped slaves to their owners. No one was convicted in the trial. The book states that "the Christiana resistance ranks with the Nat Turner uprising as one of the major episodes in black American history and the history of black-white relations. Along with John Brown's raid it was a harbinger of the Civil War. "

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.; Christiana (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80323 K18

Print, Photographic

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Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Christiana Riot House

Object ID: Christiana S02 F05

Date Range: 1896

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Christiana Riot House

Description: Ruins of the "Christiana Riot House"; Insert 1 Ruins of the "Christiana Riot House." [1896, 1898].; Insert 2 Ruins of the "Christiana Riot House" with the Pownall farm in the background. [1896, 1898].; Insert 3 The Pownall farm. 1971. (Photograph owned in 1990 by Ms. C. Ammon of Christiana)

Date Range: 1896

Year Range From: 1896

Year Range To: 1971

Storage Location: Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, PA

People: Pownall, Levi

Subject: Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana; Christiana (Pa.); Photographs; Historical markers

Classification: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE; Christiana S02 F05

Search Terms: Christiana Resistance; Christiana, Pennsylvania; Historical markers

Place: Christiana

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Object ID: Christiana S02 F05

Notes: The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes. The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.; Please contact Moores Memorial Library for a high resolution image and permission to publish:; Moores Memorial Library; 9 West Slokom Avenue; Christiana, PA 17509; chrlib@christianalibrary.org; 610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687; The digital master files are stored at LancasterHistory.; LancasterHistory; 230 N. President Ave; Lancaster, PA 17603; archives@lancasterhistory.org; (717) 392-4633; Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.

Credit: Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 5, Moores Memorial Library

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Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Gorsuch Tavern

Object ID: Christiana S02 F14

Date Range: 1971

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Gorsuch Tavern

Description: Gorsuch Tavern, Hereford, Maryland. [1971].; "At '19 Mile Stone' on York Road built in 1810 by Capt. Joshua Gorsuch, a shipbuilder. The tavern was the meeting place of the Baltimore Countians who went to Pennsylvania to reclaim their slaves. Thus bringing on the Christiana Riot of 1851."

Date Range: 1971

Storage Location: Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, PA

People: Gorsuch, Joshua

Subject: Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana; Christiana (Pa.); Photographs; Taverns (Inns)

Classification: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE; Christiana S02 F14

Search Terms: Christiana Resistance; Christiana, Pennsylvania; Taverns; Inns; Historical markers

Place: Hereford, Maryland

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Object ID: Christiana S02 F14

Notes: The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes. The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.; Please contact Moores Memorial Library for a high resolution image and permission to publish:; Moores Memorial Library; 9 West Slokom Avenue; Christiana, PA 17509; chrlib@christianalibrary.org; 610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687; The digital master files are stored at LancasterHistory.; LancasterHistory; 230 N. President Ave; Lancaster, PA 17603; archives@lancasterhistory.org; (717) 392-4633; Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.

Credit: Christiana Resistance Collection, Series 2, Folder 14, Moores Memorial Library

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Rebellion at Christiana

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Author: Bacon, Margaret Hope.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: [1975]

Call Number: 974.80323 B129

Responsibility: by Margaret Hope Bacon.

ISBN: 0517515768 :

Author: Bacon, Margaret Hope.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crown Publishers,

Date of Publication: [1975]

Physical Description: viii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 207-209.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Summary: Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the brief battle in 1851 between slave owners and escaped slaves led by William Parker.

Subjects: Parker, William. - Juvenile literature.; Parker, William.; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.; Christiana (Pa.) - History - History, Juvenile.; Christiana (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80323 B129

Bloody dawn

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1979

presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor

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Responsibility: a play by John W.W. Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1979

Physical Description: 212-217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 83, no. 4

Subjects: Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.; Historical drama - Pennsylvania - Christiana.; Christiana (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 83, number 4 (1979), p. 212-217Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.83

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Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Christiana Resistance Collection

Object ID: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE

Date Range: 1803-1971

to as the “Christiana Riot” occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker (1822), a free black living in Christiana

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Collection: Christiana Resistance Collection

Title: Christiana Resistance Collection

Description: The Christiana Resistance, commonly referred to as the "Christiana Riot," occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker (1821-1891), a free Black man living in Christiana, Pennsylvania. The slaveholders crossed the state border, and attempted claim and return the Freedom Seekers as their property, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.; The violent confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, a slaveholder, and the escape of William Parker to freedom in Canada. Edward's son, Dickinson Gorsuch, was; wounded and taken to the farm of Levi Pownall, where the Pownall family nursed him back to health. Historically, this event challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and is considered a; precursor to the Civil War.; The collection contains 2 distinct series: documents and photographs, from 1803-1971. Documents include: land drafts and deeds, correspondence to and from the Pownall family regarding the incident, notes regarding kidnappings in the area from 1850-1851, photocopied pages of Dickinson Gorsuch's diary, and published accounts of the event, memorializations, announcements and a radio drama related to or inspired by the Christiana Resistance event of 1851.; Contained in the photograph series are photographs of: the event place and places related to the Christiana Resistance, the Pownall farm, event monuments, daguerreotypes of key figures and survivors of the resistance.; Moores Memorial Library (Christiana, Pa.) owns some of the most significant manuscript material relating to the Christiana Resistance. The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public.; Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.

Admin/Biographical History: The Christiana Resistance, commonly referred to as the "Christiana Riot" occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker a free Black man living in Christiana, Pennsylvania. The slaveholders crossed the state border, and attempted claim and return the freedom seekers as their property, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.; The violent confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, a slaveholder, and the escape of William Parker to freedom in Canada. Edward's son, Dickinson Gorsuch, was wounded and taken to the farm of Levi Pownall, where the Pownall family nursed him back to health. Historically, this event challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and is considered a precursor to the Civil War.

System of Arrangement: Series 1 Manuscript and Printed Material, 1803-1955; Series 2 Photographs, 1895-1971 and No date

Date Range: 1803-1971

Year Range From: 1803

Year Range To: 1971

Date of Accumulation: 1803-1971

Creator: Moores Memorial Library

Storage Location: Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, PA

Subjects: Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana; Christiana (Pa.)

Search Terms: Christiana Resistance

Extent: 1 box, 37 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Physical Characteristics: The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE

Location of Originals: Moores Memorial Library; 9 West Slokom Avenue; Christiana, PA 17509; chrlib@christianalibrary.org; 610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687

Access Conditions / Restrictions: The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Copyright: The attached images may be used for research purposes only.; Please contact Moores Memorial Library for high resolution images and permission to publish:; Moores Memorial Library; 9 West Slokom Avenue; Christiana, PA 17509; chrlib@christianalibrary.org; 610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687

Credit: Christiana Resistance Collection, Series #, Folder #, Moores Memorial Library

Classification: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Moores Memorial Library (Christiana, Pa.) owns some of the most significant manuscript material relating to the Christiana Resistance. The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public.; The collection contains correspondence to and from the Pownall family regarding the incident, notes regarding kidnappings in the area from 1850-1851, photocopied pages of Dickinson Gorsuch's diary, and published accounts. An 1896 photograph shows Peter Woods and Samuel Hopkins, survivors of the riot. There are also photographs of the Christiana Riot House, the Pownall farm, and key figures in the riot and at the Treason Trials of 1851.; The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public. Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Booklets Brochures Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County Center Square Road Station Chestnut Street Christiana Coatesville, Chester County Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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The Pownalls of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa

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Author: Garrett, Mary D.

Date of Publication: 1979.

Call Number: 929 P889

Responsibility: Mary D. Garrett.

Author: Garrett, Mary D.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1979.

Physical Description: 14 p. : facsim. ; 29 cm.

Subjects: Pownall family.; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 P889

The Christiana Machine Company and the status revolution

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Author: Molz, Ferdinand L.

Date of Publication: 1974

The Christiana Machine Company and the Status Revolution by Dr. Ferdinand L. Molz Recently the author presented in this Journal*a detailed ac- count of the origin and development of the Christiana Machine Com- pany in Christiana, Pennsylvania. The present article attempts to personalize that essay

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Responsibility: by Dr. Ferdinand L. Molz.

Author: Molz, Ferdinand L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1974

Physical Description: [141]-152 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 78, no. 3

Subjects: Broomell Family.; Christiana Machine Company (Christiana, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 78, number 3 (1974), p. 141-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.78

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A history of the Christiana Machine Company : 1863-1920

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Author: Molz, Ferdinand L.

Date of Publication: 1972.

to January, 1889) between 1863 and 1915. They purchased Burnham's half interest �in January, 1889, and the firm remained under their control until they sold it to the Bond Foundry and Machine Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania, in 1915. In the early 1920's, the Christiana Machine Company became part of

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Responsibility: by Ferdinand L. Molz with editorial assistance of Donald J. Summar.

Author: Molz, Ferdinand L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: [173]-238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 76, no. 4

Subjects: Christiana Machine Company (Christiana, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 76, number 4 (1972), p. 173-238Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.76

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Resistance at Christiana; the fugitive slave rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851: a documentary account

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Rebellion at Christiana

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Bloody dawn

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The Pownalls of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa

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The Christiana Machine Company and the status revolution

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A history of the Christiana Machine Company : 1863-1920

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