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Headstones on Blue Mountain
From John Lenahan, March 15, 2006
Your site is great. I did not know about it
until I found it thru Google. I enjoy tracking down and visiting sites
pertaining to The Underground Railroad, Douglass, Brown etc. Your
site mentions two graves on the Blue Mountain north of Linglestown. Google
has also revealed a few sentences about these graves in Dauphin Co.
Historical Society and West Hanover Historical Society accounts. I have
seen a photo of these headstones, taken about 1956, which suggests that
they were located on the old route of the Appalachian Trail. The '34
edition of the Appalachian Trail Guidebook makes no mention of
the headstones. I've recently spent a few afternoons walking the old
trail above Linglestown and I found foundations and other artifacts but
not the headstones. There has, of course, been development of roads and
homes up there in the last 50 years. Do you know were the headstones
are? If so, could you give me directions? I would appreciate any
help you could provide.
Also, you may already know about this but there is a new book out The
Perfect Steel Trap: Harpers Ferry 1859, by Bob O'Connor. I don't
have it yet but it looks good.
Thanks
John Lenahan
Editor's note: The grave headstones have been written about in
the Patriot-News and in several local history accounts, and have even
been mentioned by Underground Railroad researcher Charles Blockson, yet I have never
visited them. Perhaps one of our readers can supply directions to
find these headstones.