Margaret Morgan Birthplace Selected for Hosanna School Museum's Bus Tour

On Saturday, June 25, 2016, the Hosanna School Museum will take visitors on a bus tour to Mill Green Mill, the birthplace of Margaret Morgan, a Harford County native born into slavery in the early 1800s. The site was recently added to the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom in Harford County.

Born in Maryland, Margaret Morgan was kidnapped from her home in the free state of Pennsylvania along with her children. Pennsylvania filed criminal charges against her abductor, but a Maryland court ruled she was a slave. Her dramatic case set a U.S. Supreme Court precedent, Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), on fugitive slaves and shaped the future of the Underground Railroad.

The bus tour departs at 10:30 a.m., from the Hosanna School Museum to begin its journey to important sites in the history of the Underground Railroad, used by people to escape slavery in the South. Parking is available at the museum. The tour will include the Hays-Heighe House, the first Harford County site on the Network to Freedom. The tour is sponsored in part by the Harford County Government.

Tickets are available online at the Hosanna School Museum website at www.hosannaschoolmuseum.org and Eventbrite.

When: Saturday, June 25, 2016

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Where: Hosanna School Museum

P.O. Box 305

2424 Castleton Road

Darlington, Maryland 21034

Donations/Tickets: $45

Children 12 and under: $35

Lunch included

www.hosannaschoolmuseum.org

For more information contact:

Historic Hosanna School Museum

P.O. Box 305

2424 Castleton Road

Darlington, Maryland 21034

410-457- 4161