The National Park Service added 19 listings to its National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom April 22, and a Lancaster County site is one of them.
The Daniel & Hannah Gibbons Burial Site at Lampeter Friends Meetinghouse has been added to the Network of Freedom, which “recognizes places and programs with verifiable connections to the Underground Railroad and the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight.”
The list was created by Congress in 1998 and includes almost 800 sites and programs.
Daniel and Hannah Gibbons were a Quaker couple whose Bird-in-Hand home became a busy stop on the Underground Railroad, according to newspaper records. The Lampeter Friends Meetinghouse is located at 2641 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand.
There are already several Lancaster County sites on the listing, including Thaddeus Stevens' home and law office, as well as his burial site; President James Buchanan's Wheatland and the First National Bank Museum in Columbia, among others. To see an interactive map of sites, visit lanc.news/NPSundergroundmap.
Nominations for the Network to Freedom are accepted twice a year. For more information, visit nps.gov.
