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TemplevilleThis sleepy intersection and former stagecoach stop called Bullock Town often awoke to exciting news in the period of the Fugitive Slave Act and Civil War. In August 1858 six fugitive slaves led by an Irishman were captured near here.Templeville was normally safe for Underground Railroad escapees because of its many free black households and sympathetic Irish immigrants. (Whitely's Hotel in Templeville was alternately described as a refuge for both Underground Railroad agents and slave kidnappers.) By reaching Templeville and moving northeast along present-day Delaware Route 11, escapees avoided the numerous slave catchers between Dover and Smyrna, Delaware. On July 3, 1863 Sergeant William Poor of Templeville, part of 300 Caroline men in the First Eastern Shore Regiment, Union Army, participated in a bloody repulse of other Eastern Shoremen fighting for the Confederacy on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederates included William Hardcastle, a descendent of Thomas Hardcastle of "Castle Hall" near Goldsboro. Copyright © 2002 J.O.K. Walsh, All rights reserved.
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