Near Philadelphia Street (Pennsylvania Route 286) at North Sixth Street.
On June 26, 1845, this 12 year-old fugitive slave was captured by slave hunters. Armed residents surrounded the hotel where he was held and demanded his release, defying federal law. Judge Thomas White freed him in the old courthouse on this site. — — Map (db m40559) HM
On Franklin Street (Pennsylvania Route 286) 0 miles east of 2nd Street ( Route 403), on the right when traveling east.
Outspoken opponent of slavery, Mitchell was widely known as an abolitionist. In September 1845, he harbored five fugitives from slavery on his property here. Following a raid by bounty hunters, two men escaped; three were returned to slavery. . . . — — Map (db m40569) HM
