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During the years before the Civil War, Gettysburg’s African-Americans worked with their Quaker neighbors to help more than 1,000 escaping slaves. Visit Yellow Hill, where Gettysburg’s African-American families found refuge during the Confederate Invasion of 1863. Sit in an 1880’s Quaker Meetinghouse and visit two sites listed on the National Network to Freedom.
To make tour reservations, contact Debra McCauslin at (717) 528-8553 or dmccauslin@gettysburghistories.com, or complete and send our email
form and we’ll get in touch.
Meet some of Gettysburg’s African-American families. Visit mysterious Yellow Hill
Cemetery, hear about U. S. Colored Troops once buried there, and learn how the
church was maliciously burned. A portion of the
proceeds from Underground
Railroad tours support preservation of local historic sites.
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