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title="Germantown, Philadelphia">Germantown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=John_Johnson_House_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania)&params=40_2_36_N_75_10_52_W_type:landmark_region:US"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">40°2′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">75°10′52″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">40.04333°N 75.18111°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">40.04333; -75.18111</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">< 1-acre (0.40 ha)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Built</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">1768</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Architect</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">Jacob Norr</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Architectural style</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">Colonial Georgian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">NRHP reference <abbr title="number">No.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/72001162">72001162</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background: #A8EDEF">Significant dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Added to NRHP</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">January 13, 1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Designated NHL</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">December 9, 1997</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Designated PHMC</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">June 1, 1995<sup id="cite_ref-phmcdatabase_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phmcdatabase-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>John Johnson House</b> (also known as the <b>Johnson House</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Landmark" title="National Historic Landmark">National Historic Landmark</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Germantown,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Germantown</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, significant for its role in the antislavery movement and the <a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is located at 6306 Germantown Avenue and is a <a href="/wiki/Contributing_property" title="Contributing property">contributing property</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Germantown_Historic_District" title="Colonial Germantown Historic District">Colonial Germantown Historic District</a>, which is also a National Historic Landmark. It is operated today as a museum open to the public. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Johnson_House_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Philadelphia, especially its <a href="/wiki/Germantown,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Germantown</a> section, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>, and the Johnson House was one of the key sites of that movement. Between 1770 and 1908, the house was the residence of five generations of the Johnson family. </p><p>The second and third generations were active in the Underground Railroad during the 1850s. Jennett Rowland Johnson, her children Rowland, Israel, Ellwood, Sarah, and Elizabeth Johnson, and their spouses were members of abolitionist groups such as the <a href="/wiki/American_Anti-Slavery_Society" title="American Anti-Slavery Society">American Anti-Slavery Society</a> and the Germantown Freedman's Aid Association. Through their associations with these groups, the brothers and sisters became involved in the Underground Railroad and used their home, along with the nearby homes of relatives, to harbor fugitive slaves on their journeys to freedom. The Johnson House is a representative station on the Underground Railroad, and the Johnsons were among the leading abolitionists of their generation.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The house, then one of the largest in Germantown (then a suburb of Philadelphia), was built between 1765 and 1768 by Jacob Norr for Dirck Jansen, who owned the ground on which nearby <a href="/wiki/Upsala_(mansion)" title="Upsala (mansion)">Upsala</a> was built. 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href="/wiki/Category:Churches_on_the_Underground_Railroad" title="Category:Churches on the Underground Railroad">churches</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad_in_Indiana" title="Underground Railroad in Indiana">Underground Railroad in Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Methodist_Episcopal_Church,_Salem_Chapel" title="British Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem Chapel">British Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem Chapel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emeline_and_Samuel_Hawkins" title="Emeline and Samuel Hawkins">Emeline and Samuel Hawkins</a> flight (1845)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_incident" title="Pearl incident"><i>Pearl</i> incident</a> (1848)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_raid_in_Cass_County_(1847)" title="Kentucky raid in Cass County (1847)">Kentucky raid in Cass County</a> (1847)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wright_Modlin#The_South_Bend_Fugitive_Slave_Case" title="Wright Modlin">The South Bend Fugitive Slave Case</a> (1849)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christiana_Riot" title="Christiana Riot">Christiana Riot</a> (1851)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Rescue" title="Jerry Rescue">Jerry Rescue</a> (1851)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin" title="Uncle Tom's Cabin">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a></i> (1852 book)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Glover" title="Joshua Glover">Joshua Glover rescue</a> (1854)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dred:_A_Tale_of_the_Great_Dismal_Swamp" title="Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp">Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp</a></i> (1856 book)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Eight" title="Dover Eight">Dover Eight</a> (1857)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oberlin%E2%80%93Wellington_Rescue" title="Oberlin–Wellington Rescue">Oberlin–Wellington Rescue</a> (1858)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilly_Escape" title="Tilly Escape">Tilly Escape</a> (1856)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Maria_Jackson" title="Ann Maria Jackson">Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children</a> (1859)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Thirteenth Amendment</a> (1865)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" title="Abolitionism in the United States">Abolitionism in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">Abolitionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_abolitionists" title="List of abolitionists">opponents of slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_African-American_abolitionists" title="List of African-American abolitionists">African-American opponents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abolitionism#Abolitionist_publications" title="Abolitionism">publications</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fugitive_slaves_in_the_United_States" title="Fugitive slaves in the United States">Fugitive slaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fugitive_slave_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Fugitive slave laws">Fugitive slave laws</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850" title="Fugitive Slave Act of 1850">1850</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quilts_of_the_Underground_Railroad" title="Quilts of the Underground Railroad">Quilts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reverse_Underground_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Reverse Underground Railroad">Reverse Underground Railroad</a></li> <li>Signals <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lawn_jockey" title="Lawn jockey">lawn jockey</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_catcher" title="Slave catcher">Slave catcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songs_of_the_Underground_Railroad" title="Songs of the Underground Railroad">Songs of the Underground Railroad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(Still)" title="The Underground Railroad (Still)"><i>The Underground Railroad Records</i></a> (1872 book)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Underground_Railroad_Freedom_Center" title="National Underground Railroad Freedom Center">National Underground Railroad Freedom Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman_Memorial_(Boston)" title="Harriet Tubman Memorial (Boston)"><i>Harriet Tubman Memorial</i> (Boston)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman_Underground_Railroad_National_Historical_Park" title="Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park">Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman_Underground_Railroad_State_Park" title="Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park">Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman_Underground_Railroad_Visitor_Center" title="Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center">visitor center</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niagara_Falls_Underground_Railroad_Heritage_Center" title="Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center">Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad_Bicycle_Route" title="Underground Railroad Bicycle Route">Underground Railroad Bicycle Route</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Railroad_to_Freedom:_A_Story_of_the_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War">The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War</a></i> (1932 book)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Woman_Called_Moses" title="A Woman Called Moses">A Woman Called Moses</a></i> (1978 miniseries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roots_of_Resistance:_The_Story_of_the_Underground_Railroad" title="Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad">Roots of Resistance</a></i> (1989 documentary)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Quest_for_Freedom" title="The Quest for Freedom">The Quest for Freedom</a></i> (1992 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Freedom:_The_Underground_Railroad" title="Freedom: The Underground Railroad">Freedom: The Underground Railroad</a></i> (2013 board game)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_North_Star_(2016_film)" title="The North Star (2016 film)">The North Star</a></i> (2016 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Underground_(TV_series)" title="Underground (TV series)">Underground</a></i> (2016 TV series)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harriet_(film)" title="Harriet (film)">Harriet</a></i> (2019 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(miniseries)" title="The Underground Railroad 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title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania">Allegheny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Armstrong_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania">Armstrong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Beaver_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Beaver County, Pennsylvania">Beaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Bedford_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Bedford County, Pennsylvania">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Berks_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania">Berks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Blair_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Blair County, Pennsylvania">Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Bradford_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Bradford County, Pennsylvania">Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Bucks_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania">Bucks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Butler_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Butler County, Pennsylvania">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Cambria_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambria County, Pennsylvania">Cambria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Cameron_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Cameron County, Pennsylvania">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Carbon_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Carbon County, Pennsylvania">Carbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Centre_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Centre County, Pennsylvania">Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Chester County, Pennsylvania">Chester</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_eastern_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania">East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_northern_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_southern_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania">South</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Clarion_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Clarion County, Pennsylvania">Clarion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Clearfield_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania">Clearfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Clinton_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Clinton County, Pennsylvania">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Columbia_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, Pennsylvania">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Crawford_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Pennsylvania">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Cumberland_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Dauphin_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania">Dauphin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Delaware_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Elk_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Elk County, Pennsylvania">Elk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Erie_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, Pennsylvania">Erie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Fayette_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Pennsylvania">Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Forest_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Forest County, Pennsylvania">Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Franklin_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Pennsylvania">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Fulton_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Pennsylvania">Fulton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Greene_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Greene County, Pennsylvania">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Huntingdon_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania">Huntingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Indiana_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Indiana County, Pennsylvania">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Jefferson_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Juniata_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Juniata County, Pennsylvania">Juniata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lackawanna_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania">Lackawanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lawrence_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lebanon_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lehigh_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania">Lehigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Luzerne_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania">Luzerne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lycoming_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania">Lycoming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_McKean_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in McKean County, Pennsylvania">McKean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Mercer_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, Pennsylvania">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Mifflin_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania">Mifflin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Monroe_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Pennsylvania">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Montour_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Montour County, Pennsylvania">Montour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Northampton_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Northampton County, Pennsylvania">Northampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Northumberland_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania">Northumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Perry_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Perry County, Pennsylvania">Perry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Philadelphia" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Pike_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Pike County, Pennsylvania">Pike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Potter_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Potter County, Pennsylvania">Potter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Schuylkill_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania">Schuylkill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Snyder_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Snyder County, Pennsylvania">Snyder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Somerset_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Pennsylvania">Somerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Sullivan_County,_Pennsylvania" title="National 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