Wilmington's Bayard Marin, the founder of the Quaker Hill Historic Preservation Foundation, has received the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Historic Preservation Medal. They honored him for advocating the restoration and preservation of "buildings of historic cultural significance, including the former home of Elwood Garrett, the son of the great abolitionist, Thomas Garrett."
The Thomas West House (no longer extant) on Quaker Hill was built 2 years before the founding of the City of Wilmington.(photo courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society)
Wilmington Friends Meeting, at the heart of Quaker Hill, is the burial site of Thomas Garrett and John Dickinson, a Delaware signer of the U.S. Constitution. The hill also is a landmark of the Underground Railroad. It was the home of abolitionist Thomas Garrett, who is credited with helping more than 2,000 slaves -- more than any other individual -- to freedom in the North, collaborating with Harriet Tubman and others.
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