Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

Independence Hall, Philadelphia

4 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

Independence Hall, Philadelphia

WHERE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WAS BORN William Penn was a man of vision. When, in 1682, Thomas Holme surveyed for him the site of…

Independence Hall, Philadelphia: State

Two years after the completion of the main building the Pennsylvania Assembly passed an act in which this statement was made: "It is the…

Independence Hall, Philadelphia: Declaration

On May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress met in the Assembly Chamber, and took action that made inevitable the adoption of the…

Independence Hall, Philadelphia: David

This was Barlow's way of telling of the achievement of David Rittenhouse, the colonial astronomer, in fashioning the marvellous orrery, the…

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