Thomas Garrett was an American abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. He helped more than 2,500 African Americans escape slavery.
Garrett around 1850
Thornfield, his boyhood home in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
Upper Darby Township, often shortened to Upper Darby, is a home rule township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 85,681, making it the state's sixth-most populated municipality after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, and Erie. Upper Darby borders Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city, and constitutes part of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the nation's seventh-largest metropolitan area.
Tower Theater in Upper Darby Township
Row houses on Richfield Road
Charles Willson Peale's portrait Landscape Looking Toward Sellers Hall from Mill Bank in Upper Darby
Collen Brook Farm