African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress.
In the 20th century, southern migrants found employment in the steel industry and b.
Deep religious convictions provided fertile ground for development of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion connection, known as the Freedom Church, and Pandenarium, an experimental colony of manumitted slaves.
Runaway slaves secreted along stations of the Underground Railroad to Liberia, a settlement founded by Richard Travis.
African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress