Over the weekend, members of the Mt. Airy/Cedarbrook Community Facebook page noticed a historic marker missing from the former home of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, a civil rights activist and the first Black woman to pass the Pennsylvania bar.
Residents were concerned that the marker had been removed, similar to the panels at the President’s House exhibit in Independence National Historical Park, which federal officials removed at the behest of the Trump administration.
However, the marker was temporarily taken down for maintenance and will be returned later this month or in April, …
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Over the weekend, members of the Mt. Airy/Cedarbrook Community Facebook page noticed a historic marker missing from the former home of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, a civil rights activist and the first Black woman to pass the Pennsylvania bar.
Residents were concerned that the marker had been removed, similar to the panels at the President’s House exhibit in Independence National Historical Park, which federal officials removed at the behest of the Trump administration.
However, the marker was temporarily taken down for maintenance and will be returned later this month or in April, Jay Losiewicz, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), told the Local.
PHMC oversees historical markers placed around Pennsylvania.
A yellow marker indicating the maintenance was placed in its stead, but may have either blown away or been removed, according to Ken Weinstein, who is a member of the PHMC.
Alexander and her husband, civil rights attorney Raymond Pace Alexander, purchased the Mt. Airy property at 700 Westview Ave. in 1959.
