"For the sake of peace, love, and nothing but that..." referring to the break with the Asbury Methodist Church of Wilmington, Reverend Peter Spencer The August Quarterly, originally known as the...
HARRIET TUBMAN THOMAS GARRETT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THOMAS GARRETT, JOHN HUNN, EZEKIEL JENKINS, SAMUAL D. BURRIE, AND MANY OTHER DELAWAREANS WERE PROMINENT ABOLITIONISTS OF PRE- CIVIL WAR DAYS....
On March 10, 1999, this site was officially proclaimed as the Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park by the Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware The Underground Railroad Memorial Plaque was...
Riverfront Parking Deck Developed through the cooperation of State and City government in partnership with private business. Continuing the expansion and redevelopment of the CHRISTINA RIVERFRONT...
MTA New York City Transit 34th Street Station OPENED SEPTEMBER 10, 1932 REHABILITATED JULY 29, 2002 GEORGE E. PATAKI GOVERNOR, STATE OF NEW YORK MICHAEL BLOOMBERG MAYOR, CITY OF NEW YORK PETER...
The Estate Staff This laundry yard was often filled with clothes hung out to dry. Inside the house domestic servants cooked, cleaned, and tended to the family's needs. Mina Edison supervised a...
"Passenger service to Philadelphia and New York. All aboard!" RIVERFRONT WILMINGTON In the latter half of the nineteenth century, rapid growth of the economy and demand hand for for shipping...
HARRIET TUBMAN (born Araminta Harriet Ross; 1820 - March 10, 1913) "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one,...
THOMAS GARRETT (b August 21, 1789 d. January 24, 1871) "No labor during a long life has given me so much real happiness as what I have done for the slave" Thomas Garrett has been called...
Friends of The Furness Railroad District Friends of the Furness Railroad District, 501(c)(3) organization, was founded in 2007 to celebrate the Wilmington Amtrak Station's 100th...