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Farmhouse Restoration Progress
View of the repaired west wing wall, next to the ground floor entrance to the Farmhouse basement. View from widened basement doorway, wall prior to being repaired (l.), and repaired wall ...
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DFCLT at America250PA’s Spring Reception
Vice Presidents, Lonnie Moore, left, and Darryl Gore, right, represented DFCLT at the "Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial's (America250PA) Spring Reception" in Philadelphia, April 27, 2022. Darryl Gore, Vice President of Development, and ...
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DFCLT at Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
Title Page of Denise Dennis’ paper for the SHA conference. The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) held its 55th Annual Conference, on January 5-8, 2022, in Philadelphia. Wade Catts, RPA, DFCLT Board member, and ...
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Urban League Guild Honors DFCLT President For Women’s History Month
Title slide from the Urban League Guild of Philadelphia's Women's History Month presentation For their 2022 Women's History Month event, on March 19th, the Urban League Guild of Philadelphia honored The Dennis Farm ...
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Dennis Speaks at the Museum of the American Revolution Conference
Apr 7, 2022 DFCLT @ Museum of the American Revolution On April 7-9, 2022 the Museum of the American Revolution, in Philadelphia, hosted their Conference, “Collecting the Revolutionary War.” The conference ...
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Farmhouse Restoration, Phase I, Begins
Thanks to a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the first phase of the restoration, rebuild and transformation of the Dennis Farmhouse to a museum ...
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2022 Forum Video Contest Winners Announced
Lonnie Moore, Vice President of Marketing, DFCLT (center), with 2022 Forum Student Video Contest Winners, Devin Davison (left) and Ibrahim Soukouna (right). This year, we have two first place video contest scholarship recipients of ...
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The Dennis Farm in Women’s History
Although men--Prince Perkins, William Perkins, Henry Dennis and his sons, Perkins William Dennis, N.B. Dennis and S.B. Dennis--originally purchased, founded, developed, expanded and led The Dennis Farm into the 20th century, there is a ...
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DFCLT Salutes Northeast Pennsylvania’s Lt. Colonel James H. Harvey, III, Tuskegee Airman and America’s First “Top Gun”
Class 44-I-SE1 graduated from flight training on Oct. 16, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. Order unknown: Cornelius D. Dowling, Henry A. Hunter, Ferrier F. White, Rutherford H. Adkins, Thomas J. ...
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DFCLT Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Historic Announcement
Presenters from the Ninth Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, a Virtual Webinar Cassandra Coleman, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial, was the keynote speaker for the Ninth Annual Dennis ...
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