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Looking for Lincoln Announces Documentary short on New Philadelphia

Looking for Lincoln has announced the creation of a documentary short about New Philadelphia entitled; New Philadelphia Illinois: A Racially Diverse Community on the Illinois Frontier. Click here to read more.

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Press Event and Signing Ceremony, Makes New Philadelphia Site Newest Unit of the National Park Service →

Contacts:
Philip Bradshaw, President, NPA
Griggsville, IL 62340

Carol McCartney, Secretary, NPA
E-mail: jeffm@adams.net

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Founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, New Philadelphia is the first known town planned and legally registered by an African American in the United States. Frank McWorter used his earnings to purchase 16 family members out of slavery. The site of this frontier community of European Americans and African Americans is a nationally significant archeological site advancing our understanding of free, rural communities and the abolitionist cause in the antebellum era.

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