On 6th Street (Pennsylvania Route 954) near Philadelphia Street, on the left when traveling south.
In the years before the Civil War, Indiana County welcomed
people fleeing slavery and helped them get to freedom.
"The function of an ideal is not to be realized but,
like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point."
- Edward . . . — — Map (db m281731) HM
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
