Cemeteries and the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
2025-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
“Pennsylvania USCT History Documented in the Network to Freedom” presented by Robin Krawitz – Northeast Regional Manager of the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program
Discussion will cover:
• The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program
•The history and future of the program.
•How cemeteries can become a part of the Network
•Benefits of inclusion
• What is International Underground Railroad Month?
Robin Krawitz joined the NPS’s UGRR Network to Freedom Program in 2020. Krawitz’s work on the Underground Railroad began in 1995, where she helped document nationally significant sites, including the New Castle Court House, known for the 1848 trial of Underground Railroad operatives John Hunn and Thomas Garrett whose story was used by Harriet Beecher Stowe as the models for the Simeon Halliday character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. With the creation of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program in 1998, she worked with local community groups to list seven projects in this new program and extend the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway through Delaware and into Pennsylvania. Additionally, she was president of the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware and served on the board of the Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American History before joining the National Park Service.
For more information on the PAHG please contact
Email: PAHG@pahallowedgrounds.org | Website: www.pahallowedgrounds.org
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Burial Practices and Cemetery Laws in PA
2025-04-15 19:00 - 21:00
Join PA HALLOWED GROUNDS on April 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. via ZOOM for “Burial practices and Cemetery Laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” presented by Elizabeth Rairigh, the Preservation Services Division Manager at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office.

Rairigh’s presentation will cover:
o The history and current laws of the state burial practices
o Challenges cemeteries face
o State Historic Preservation Office’s role in burial and cemetery preservation

More About Our Speaker:

Elizabeth Rairigh is the Preservation Services Division Manager at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office. In her role at the SHPO, she manages the National Register program and serves as the Certified Local Government coordinator. Prior to joining the SHPO, she served as Historic Preservation Planner for a regional planning agency in Massachusetts, and a consultant with KSK Architects Planners Historians, Inc., in Philadelphia. Ms. Rairigh has an undergraduate degree in anthropology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and a Masters of City Planning and an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.
For more information on the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, please contact
Website: www.pa.gov/agencies/phmc/historic-preservation.html

The event is FREE to the public.

Registration is required to receive the ZOOM Link.

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Stewards Roundtable with Timotha Trigg
2025-09-23 19:00 - 20:00
Please join us to hear “The Story and Preservation of Mother Archie’s Church and Cemetery” with Timotha Trigg.
Timotha Trigg currently serves as the chair of the Chadds Ford Township Board of Supervisors. Previously, she was a member of the Chadds Ford Planning Commission for a number of years. She also served on the Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board for eight years – two as board president and two as vice president.

The presentation will discuss:

How did Ms. Trigg get into this field of work
Challenges and successes of the preservation work
Descendant involvement
Plans for the future

Registration is FREE and the program will be recorded.
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Attend Our Annual Meeting: October 18
2025-10-18 10:00 - 15:30
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