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Riot.
1 item, 1 piece
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Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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.
Peter Woods, with corn knife, and Samuel Hopkins, both survivors of the Christiana Resistance, pose in front of the ruins of William Parker's House. Site of the Christiana Resistance. Digital image only.
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.
