The Rescue of Anthony Hollingsworth
On June 26, 1845, this 12 year-old fugitive slave was captured by slave hunters. Armed residents surrounded the hotel where he was held & demanded his release, defying federal law. Judge Thomas White freed him in the old courthouse on this site.
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Philadelphia Street (Pennsylvania Route 286) and North Sixth Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
