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At the age of ten, the Shadd's moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania where Mary attended a Quaker School for the next six years. This experience influence dMary later in life, whereby she returned to this location and opened a school for Black children in 1840.
#TBT: Did you know that Dimock's emergency shelter is named after Mary Eliza Mahoney, an African-American trailblazer in medicine? A native of Boston, Mary Eliza became the first black professional nurse in 1879. She graduated from the nursing school at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, which is now known as The Dimock Center.