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Gettysburg
Battlefield Bed & Breakfast Inn
"Struggle For Freedom"
August 8, 2009
$45 adult,
$22.50 child in addition to room rate.
This fascinating package focuses on the
Underground Railroad,
Lincoln, &
Emancipation.
The package
includes
1. Deb McCauslin's tour of Gettysburg and the
Underground Railroad, described below.
2. Lunch with the
renowned Lincoln Impersonator James Getty at the Abigail Adams Room
of the Dobbin House Restaurant.
Click here
for photo of locations on the Underground Railroad
tour.
Underground Railroad Tours
are
Gettysburg's Newest Attraction
Contributed
by Debra McCauslin
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Last Updated
February 24, 2009
Gettysburg, PA - July 11, 2007 -
There's something new to do while visiting Gettysburg - Underground
Railroad Tours of Adams County are underway.
The new tour,
created and guided by Debra McCauslin, allows visitors to get
acquainted with those who sought freedom and those who fought for
it. Portions of tour proceeds from the tour are donated to historic
preservation.
The tour showcases several people who were
involved in the Underground Railroad in Adams County including
Gettysburg's Bazil Biggs, Bendersville's Edward Mathews, the founder
of the Yellow Hill Settlement and Menallen Township's Cyrus Griest,
a Quaker who aided Kitty Payne and her children during their 1845
kidnapping from their
Bendersville home.
The Quakers who
lived near Bendersville were related to and worked with William and
Phebe Wright
who aided over 1,000 freedom seekers in their York
Springs' home.
"The Underground Railroad was a contributing
cause of the Civil War and two million visitors come to Gettysburg
each year to see the affects of its largest battle. Maybe we could
help those visitors understand a cause of the war by talking about
the freedom seekers and freedom fighters that once walked on this
land prior to that war seeking a free life away from the horrors of
slavery," states tour creator and tour guided Debra McCauslin.
Stops on the tour include the Yellow Hill Cemetery where a
pre-Civil War African American community existed and the Menallen
Friends Meetinghouse and
cemetery where Quakers still have
meetings for worship today. Both were named to the National Park
Service's National Network to Freedom in 2006 for their involvement
in the Underground Railroad.
Historic Gettysburg Adams County, a
member-supported preservation organization assisted Deb McCauslin by
crafting an access agreement with a Butler Township landowner to
allow foot traffic over private property to see the Yellow Hill
Cemetery.
The Yellow Hill Cemetery is not open to the public
and access is allowed only with a pre-scheduled and preapproved tour
under McCauslin's guidance.
McCauslin is a lifelong Adams County
resident and is related to George Washington Sandoe, the first
soldier killed at Gettysburg who died near McAllister's Mill which
was reputed to be a station on the Underground
Railroad.
McCauslin is a member of Toastmasters International
and she teaches at Harrisburg Area Community College. She has spoken
to groups and organizations throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, New
York, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, and Virginia.
The author
of Reconstructing the Past Puzzle
of a Lost Community at Yellow
Hill, Deb donates book sale proceeds, tour proceeds and speaking
fees to several local preservation
organizations.
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