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David Townsend, a Quaker abolitionist who owned a flour mill along the Beaver River near this site, planned New Brighton and its streets around 1838, earning the name "Father of New Brighton," and donated the land for Townsend Park. As a secret conductor, he transported fugitives in the false bottom of his wagon, with flour sacks loaded on top, to a safe house.
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New Brighton, Pennsylvania · United States
