New Philadelphia,
Illinois
"Free Frank" McWorter plotted and settled New Philadelphia, registering the town as the first to be done so by an African-American. McWorter would help people his new settlement by buying 16 families out of slavery.
Communal Memory Archive
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Illinois Agriculture - People - Early Settlement - New Philadelphia (state.il.us)
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Archeology of New Philadelphia (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
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Signs Along the Highway - Harvey County Historical Society (hchm.org)
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New Philadelphia, Illinois: The 1st Town Founded By A Black American | Here & Now (wbur.org)
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The McWorter Family Selected Documents about an African American Family
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News | New Philadelphia | A Pioneer Town… (newphiladelphiail.org)
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New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland | Paul Shackel
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D. W. Ensign, Atlas Map of Pike County, Illinois. Andreas, Lyter & Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1872.
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Charles C. Chapman, History of Pike County, Illinois. Charles C. Chapman & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1880.
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Grace E. Matteson, “Free Frank” McWorter and the “Ghost Town” of New Philadelphia. Pike County Historical Society, Pittsfield, 1964.
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Helen McWorter Simpson, Makers of History. Laddie B. Warren, Evansville, Indiana, 1981.
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Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier | Juliet E. K. Walker
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities | Chris Fennell
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