🌱 How Christiana’s 1851 stand against slavery still shapes the town
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- How Christiana’s 1851 stand against slavery still shapes the town
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📰 News we're reading
• Lancaster County town's historic stand against slavery (wgal.com) — Christiana’s pivotal 1851 resistance to a Maryland slave owner is spotlighted here, tying local streets and buildings to a nationally significant freedom struggle. You’ll learn how the Zercher Hotel and an Underground Railroad stop on Green Street figured into the story, and how the Christiana Historical Society’s monthly “Saturday on the Porch” events keep that legacy alive for today’s residents and visitors. 
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Knitting Club →
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Solanco High School - District Wide Elementary Concert Assembly
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Solanco SD Christiana, PA 17509
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Sr. High POPs Festival
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167 Brandt St, Parkesburg
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Wednesday May 20
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🗞 Nearby News
Quarryville
- Traffic and police are topics of interest at Quarryville's first 'town hall' forum (lancasteronline.com)
- 5-vehicle crash damages telephone pole in Lancaster County (local21news.com)
- West Earl Twp. property changes hands for more than $13.8M [Lancaster County deeds recorded: May 11, 2026] (lancasteronline.com)
Strasburg
- Adapting on the fly: One farmer's approach to a difficult spring (farmprogress.com)
- Chef Daniel LeBoon acquires historic Franklin House Tavern in Schaefferstown (lebtown.com)
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