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TIL about Dinah, a slave woman who alerted of two British soldiers attempting to burn Stenton Hall in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, and saved the legacy home from arson. However, she was only recognized by the Stenton Hall legacy as "Faithful Colored Caretaker".

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