Daily News | Montco’s Abolition Hall, an Underground Railroad stop, will be preserved
Abolition Hall, built in 1856 by adding onto a carriage shed at the rear of a stone barn, once hosted speakers including William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Lucretia Mott. Whitemarsh Township and the Whitemarsh Art Center finalized a deal to buy and preserve the property Thursday.A Plymouth Meeting farm that served as an Underground Railroad stop and in recent years attracted developers has officially been preserved.
In a deal finalized Thursday, Whitemarsh Township and the nonprofit Whitemarsh Art Center paid $3.95 million for the more than 10-acre property off Butler Pike that includes buildings listed on the. The art center plans to move to the property. Other uses have yet to be determined. The property in Whitemarsh Township was purchased with earned income tax funds that the township uses to preserve open space and a $2 million grant to the art center from the Karabots Foundation, a family-run philanthropic nonprofit.Developer drops plans for townhouses at Underground Railroad site, but several others want it
In the 19th century, the property was owned by George Corson, who hosted abolitionist rallies and helped enslaved people who had escaped bondage. Before the opening of the barn, the homestead was an established station on the Underground Railroad. “This is a landmark moment for our community and the entire region,” Laura Boyle-Nester, chair of the Whitemarsh Township Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “Abolition Hall, the Hovenden House and the Corson Homestead are significant pieces of our history and we are ecstatic that we have protected them for future generations.”
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