Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
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| Brooklyn Township | Susquehanna County, PA 18824 | | ||
About: Established in 2001, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust was created to preserve a rare historic and cultural resource in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains region. The 153-acre Dennis Farm was originally settled by the family of Prince Perkins, free African Americans who arrived in northeastern Pennsylvania from Connecticut in 1793 with the original wave of settlement into the region following the American Revolution. Their descendants, the Perkins-Dennis family, have retained ownership of the property since its creation to the present.
The history of the Dennis Farm and the Perkins Dennis family is fully documented. This continuous and documented ownership of property by African Americans, in a largely white county in the northeast, represents a little-known and remarkable story in American history and holds lessons for us today. Although tours of the property are currently by invitation only, the purpose of the Dennis Farm Charitable Trust is to develop the Dennis Farm into an educational and cultural site for scholars, researchers, cultural heritage tourists, school groups and others interested in this extraordinary history.
 Perkins-Dennis CemeteryPhotos and text courtesy Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust |
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