Local History

Above, landscape painting Looking Toward Sellers Hall from Mill Bank c.1818. Sellers Hall is on the horizon, center left

I was surprised and pleased to find that Charles Willson Peale was a friend of the Sellers family. Here in this community Sellers Hall and Sellers Library are well known for being a stop on the Underground Railroad. 

“The painter Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) who voted for the abolition of slavery as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780,[9] was a frequent visitor of Sellers Hall. His distant view of Sellers Hall (1818) is an early example of American landscape painting.[10] Peale’s daughter, Sophonisba (1786-1859), married Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), and Peale’s granddaughter, the landscape painter Anna Sellers (1824-1905), lived at Sellers Hall.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellers_Hall