Christiana is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Southerners demanded the hanging of those responsible, who were accused of treason and making war on the United States, but after the first defendant was acquitted, the government dropped the case.

The trial was the first nationally covered challenge to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.53 square miles (1.37 km2), all land.

[8] The borough is in the valley of Pine Creek, which forms the Lancaster County/Chester County line, and which flows south to form Octoraro Creek, a southward-flowing tributary of the Susquehanna River.

22.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.