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DELAWARE STATE SENATE
136TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPONSOR
Sen. McDowell, Sens.
Holloway,
Marshall,
Reps. Sills, Moore
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
(SCR 56)
JUNE 25, 1991
Urging the Board of Trustees of
the Delaware Technical and Community College to name the
Wilmington campus in honor of the late Thomas Garrett of
Wilmington, famed as the Wilmington Stationmaster on the
Underground Railroad which spirited slaves to freedom in
the North during the Civil War era.
WHEREAS,
the City of Wilmington was a famed station on the Underground Railroad, which offered Harriet Tubman and others who traveled the perilous routes
from the South seeking freedom a safe haven along the way; and
WHEREAS,
the Thomas Garrett house on 227 Shipley Street aided more than
2,700 slaves to find their way to freedom in the North; and
WHEREAS, Thomas Garrett served the Underground Railroad for 49 years of his
life, risking life and property to assist slaves on the
Underground Railroad; and
WHEREAS, the home at 227 Shipley Street, known throughout the nation as the most
famous station on the Railroad, was razed in the 1970’s to make
way for the Wilmington campus of DelTech; and
WHEREAS,
DelTech currently serves for many of the same purposes of the
Underground Railroad, namely a passage to freedom from
illiteracy, poverty, and many of the social ills which plague
our communities; and
WHEREAS, a
tribute to the brave men and women who served in the Underground
Railroad is long overdue;
NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED
by the Senate of the 136th General Assembly, the
House of Representatives concurring therein, that the Board of
Trustees of Delaware Technical and Community College is hereby
urged to dedicate its Wilmington campus in honor of Thomas
Garrett, whose home at 227 Shipley Street was a nationally known
station on the Underground Railroad and now is part of the land
on which the Wilmington Campus was built.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that a suitable copy of this Senate Concurrent Resolution be
forwarded to the Harriet Tubman Historical Society, P.O.
Box 146, Wilmington, Delaware, 19899, upon its adoption.
SD/JKR/jkr
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