Built in 1835 near Buckingham Mountain, Pennsylvania, the Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church was the last Underground Railroad station leading to the Delaware River and into New Jersey. Mount Gilead was founded by Big Ben Jones, himself a fugitive slave, six feet ten inches in height.
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I’m very interested in your source on your information that Big Ben Jones founded Mt. Gilead Church.