The Rescue of Anthony Hollingsworth

The Rescue of Anthony Hollingsworth is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Indiana County, dedicated 2002.

Indiana County · dedicated 2002 · 6th & Philadelphia Sts, Indiana (at 1st Commonwealth Central Offices Bldg.)

On June 26, 1845, this 12 year-old fugitive slave was captured by slave hunters. Armed residents surrounded the hotel where he was held & demanded his release, defying federal law. Judge Thomas White freed him in the old courthouse on this site.

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