Join or donate!

Click the yellow button to donate with a card or Paypal.  Or you send your check to NPA, Box 54, Barry, IL 62312.  Thank you!

You’ll get a newsletter twice a year and at several giving levels you get more:

  • $50 individual membership for the calendar year, renewable each January 1
  • $250 Certified Friend of Frank, in honor of Frank McWorter, founder of New Philadelphia
  • $500 Certified Friend of Lucy, in honor of Lucy McWorter, Frank’s wife (Frank bought her freedom first so that the baby she was expecting would be born free)
  • $1000 Name your virtual lot in the town of New Philadelphia. You’ll receive a welcome letter, map showing your lot, brief history of the lot, and your choice of book: either New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland by Paul Shackel or New Philadelphia by Gerald McWorter and Kate Williams-McWorter for the New Philadelphia Association.
  • $1836 Two virtual lots in honor of the year Frank founded New Philadelphia.  Same benefits as above!