The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust has been selected as a recipient of the Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust will use the grant and matching funds to restore and rebuild its 195-year-old Dennis Farmhouse for repurpose as a museum that will be used as an educational and cultural site for scholars, researchers, educators, and others interested in the farm’s extraordinary history.
In order to receive the awarded funds, The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is responsible for raising $1,200,000.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
Please join us in our mission to share the untold story of the Dennis family by making a gift to The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust. Help us tell the rarely heard history of free African Americans from the late 18th century through the Civil War – a narrative that offers meaningful lessons for us today.
You can make your gift through our secure donation page online, or by contacting Vice President of Development Darryl Gore at dlg.thedennisfarm@gmail.com or
215-668-8965.
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization.
February Forum
On February 8, 2020, at 1:00 PM, DFCLT will present The Lonae A. Moore Memorial Forum: It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding.
The forum will be held at the Museum of the American Revolution, 3rd and Chestnut Streets, in Philadelphia.
Two African American veterans of the American Revolution, who fought for liberty and equality, rest in the cemetery on the Dennis Farm. Although they were free men, in spite of their service and that of thousands of Black men in the Revolution, liberty and equality were denied to the majority of Americans of African heritage. Since that time, we–Americans–have been working and are still working to become “a more perfect union” that lives up to the early promise of equality, especially in regard to race.
Both the Museum of the American Revolution and the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust are committed to telling a more full history of our nation’s beginnings and to keeping the best of our ideals alive, as an inspiration for the present and the future. The forum is designed with this in mind.
For more information, visit our website in the months to come.
Museum of the American Revolution
A beautifully carved and signed Revolutionary War powder horn taken from the lifeless body of Gershom Prince, an African American soldier and Dennis family ancestor who was killed in the Battle of Wyoming, is on exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution for one year.
The Gershom Prince powder horn is on loan to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for one year. Denise Dennis spoke about the power horn at a press conference and a special reception at the museum.
Philly museum has the only surviving relic of its type from a slain African American colonial soldier
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Rare powder horn illuminates little-known story of Black soldiers of the Revolutionary War
