NAACP Johnstown Invites You to Our
Juneteenth Celebration & Recognition!
National Park Service
Underground Railroad Recognition
@ Sandyvale Memorial Garden
in Johnstown PA 15902
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Johnstown is being recognized
as an Underground Railroad Station (UGRR)
by the National Parks Service on
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
at Sandyvale Memorial Garden (Hornerstown)
1 pm to 5 pm
FREE | Community Family picnic | FREE
Bring blankets, chairs, picnic baskets
and umbrellas (for the sun)
There will be a DJ, children’s activities
(sponsored by the NPS),
Gospel music and a puppet show
Sandyvale Memorial Garden
is at the corner of Hickory Street Bridge and Horner Street
in Hornerstown. (10.6 acres of flat grassy lawn)
Sandyvale Cemetery, a commemorative site for Underground Railroad activity, is located in the Hornerstown section of the city of Johnstown and became a cemetery in 1856. According to newspaper obituaries, the only remaining source of information, buried in Sandyvale are several conductors of Johnstown's Underground Railroad network; specifically, James Heslop, Charlotte Heslop, John Cushon, Benjamin Slick, and William Slick. It was James Heslop, John Cushon, and William Slick who were involved in the 1837 incident involving two runaway slaves, Patrick and Abraham, who were brought to Johnstown after a harrowing escape from John Sherrard's farm in Bath, Virginia (present-day West Virginia) The abolitionists who worked to save Patrick and Abraham were also responsible for others who managed to obtain freedom with their help. Their story can only be remembered and told at Sandyvale; a cemetery that itself has almost been lost to time due to the ravishing of three major floods in 1889, 1936 and finally 1977. Both Sandyvale and the story of the UGRR are critical to the history of this region.
We invite you to celebrate with us!
We are located 1 hour 20 mins from Pittsburgh.
For More Information & Directions Contact
Alan G. Cashaw
NAACP Johnstown President
814.341.5111
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