Guided Bus Tour and Presentation of the National Underground Railroad in Columbia, Wrightsville, and City of Lancaster

TripUndergroundRR4-19-24 | This program is completed

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States

Lower parking lot at Albemarle St & Springdale Ave

Members and nonmembers

4/19/2024 (one day)

8:00 AM-2:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$98.00

$78.00

This four-hour tour will cover twelve locations, with stories shared, and with five or six sites visited, i.e. getting on and off the bus. Stops can be varied depending on overall time, weather, preferences, and stamina of guests. Randolph Harris is a partner in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, a program of the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service. Since 2003, Harris has been responsible directly, or with other historians, for the research and documentation of twenty of the approximately fifty sites in Pennsylvania included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Lunch will be at the Lancaster Central Market.

  • MEET AT THE LOWER PENN STATE YORK PARKING LOT AT ALBEMARLE & SPRINGDALE TO GET THE BUS AT 8AM.

Randy Harris, a native of western Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley, has worked for more than twenty-five years on projects and initiatives focused on community revitalization through the preservation and the reuse of historic buildings, creation of heritage tourism sites and programs, and other sustainable land use practices. Trained as a journalist and communications specialist, Randy served as a newspaper reporter, editor, and photographer before working for the Pittsburgh Area Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. After moving to Lancaster in the mid-90s, Harris served as the executive director of the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County before becoming an independent consulting historian in 2002. Since 2003, he has helped twenty heritage sites become official sites in the National Park Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program, the nation's official listing of authentic resources associated with the Underground Railroad.