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New Interpretive Signs Unveiled

On a sunny, blue-skied October day, in ceremonies to begin the on-site tour during 2019 Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, DFCLT unveiled a new welcome sign at the entrance to the farm. The entrance sign is one of eleven new interpretative signs installed from the farm’s lower tier to the farm’s upper tier, a half-mile

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Cain Chamberlin, Executive Director, Endless Mountains Heritage Region
DFCLT Seventh Annual Symposium Keynote Speaker

Cain Chamberlin, executive director, Endless Mountains Heritage Region, delivers keynote address at Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium. The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust welcomed Cain Chamberlin, executive director of the Endless Mountain Heritage Region (EMHR), as keynote speaker for the Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, held at Keystone College, October 10, 2019. Although this was

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Tour the Dennis Farm

If you would like to tour the farm, please call the Dennis Farm at Keystone College, 570-945-8150.

 

Forum Student Essay Contest

Students, click here to view a video of the February 8, 2020 Lonaé A. Moore Memorial Forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding” at the Museum of the American Revolution.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hidden History

Edith Dennis and her cousin Priscilla were the first two African American boarding students to attend Bloomsburg University as part of the Class of 1919.

 

Their story continues to capture the interest of many people including Eyewitness News Reporter Morgan Parrish, who recently featured Edith’s story in a special report. View the segment here.

 

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

 

Rare powder horn illuminates little-known story of Black soldiers of the Revolutionary War

DONATE

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.

About the Dennis Farm: Videos

Click here to watch videos about the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust.

 

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