Aug 14, 2008

William C. Goodridge museum seeks funds


(YDR) - In an old kitchen in an East Philadelphia Street home, planks of wood cover a stairwell leading to a small dirt room believed to have been part of the Underground Railroad.
By next year, visitors could peer into that room to see a multimedia presentation that re-creates a time when slaves hid there.
But efforts to turn the York house into the William C. Goodridge Freedom House and Underground Railroad Museum are stalled while money is raised for the project. Continued

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