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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DFCLT Welcomes New Board Member Curtis Johnson
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is excited to welcome Curtis Johnson, a dynamic new member to our Board. Curtis Johnson is a strategist and media executive with nearly 15 years of experience spanning ...
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DFCLT and Brooklyn (PA) Historical Society
The First Universalist Church in Brooklyn Township, Pennsylvania was the setting for the annual meeting of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust’s neighbors, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), on July 18, 2021. Denise Dennis ...
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Philadelphia Legacy Media Tours Dennis Farm On Juneteenth
On June 19, 2021, the United States celebrated Juneteenth, as a national holiday, for the first time. Two days earlier, President Joseph R. Biden designated Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the day, ...
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Susquehanna County Commissioners Tour Dennis Farm
Standing in front of the monument at the Perkins-Dennis Family Cemetery: first row from left, Susquehanna County Commissioner, Judith Herschel; Susquehanna County Commissioner, Chair, Elizabeth M. Arnold; Hillori Schenker-Lione; seventh-generation Perkins-Dennis family descendants and DFCLT ...
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