Richard Stanhope, one of Champaign County’s connections to our nation’s founding – and first president – will be the subject of a 2 p.m. Saturday, March 28 presentation at the Champaign County Historical Society Museum. As a free Black man and landowner, Stanhope resided, and was buried, in Concord Township of Champaign County. But before that, as a slave, he served General George Washington during the American Revolution, accompanying him to several battles, and later as chi