We have found nothing yet on the scale of the African American community Weeksville, that you are researching. Most of the significant antebellum African American communities in central Pennsylvania appear to be portions of larger towns or cities in which the African American population was concentrated. We also know of a few small rural communities that were almost exclusively African American in Cumberland and Adams County, Pennsylvania. One such community in Adams County was called Yellow Hill. Most, if not all, of the rural African American communities disappeared some time before the twentieth century. Yellow Hill appears to have Underground Railroad ties with neighboring farms that were owned by Quakers.

The urban African American communities were generally known by unofficial names. Harrisburg had several distinct communities, Judy's Town and Tanner's Alley being the most important in regard to Underground Railroad activity.