Discovering Forgotten History: The Lost Community at Yellow Hill
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Historian and author Debra Sandoe McCauslin learned of an abandoned African American cemetery where her father grew up on Yellow Hill, Adams County, eight miles north of Gettysburg, Pennylvania. This cemetery was the place where veterans of the U.S. Colored Troops were once buried. McCauslin went to the census records to learn about the community and found about 100 residents who lived there in 1850. She then learned about the Menallen Friends who lived in the
This bookstore presentation is provided in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's 2010 theme, Black History in Pennsylvania: Communities in Common.
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