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1. George Read - One of America's Founding Fathers

   ... politics. In 1763, the Royal Governor of Pennsylvania, John Penn (the grandson of Pennsylvania founder William Penn), named Read as the Attorney General of Delaware.  Despite ...

   06/29/2020 - 04:11

2. Philadelphia Firsts

   ... First "Planned City" in North America - Founded in 1682 by William Penn, Philadelphia was designed using a grid outlining wide streets and five ...

   11/18/2013 - 12:31

3. The Second Continental Congress

   ... Samuel Huntington Roger Sherman William Williams Oliver Wolcott Delaware Thomas ... Joseph Hewes William Hooper John Penn Pennsylvania George Clymer Benjamin Franklin ...

   07/20/2020 - 02:02

4. Rittenhouse Square

   ... in the United States   The History When William Penn founded Philadelphia in 1682, he designed the first planed city in ...

   10/18/2018 - 15:50

5. The Philadelphia Zoo

   ... began to think of opening a zoo.  Due to the effort of William Camac, a Philaelphia doctor, the Pennsylvania State Legislature ... overlooking the Schuylkill River that was built by John Penn, the grandson of Philadelphia founder, William Penn.  The neoclassical ...

   07/24/2018 - 02:30

6. Arch Street Friends Meeting House

   ... Independence Hall Built in 1804 on land that William Penn gave to the Quakers in 1693, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House is the ...

   08/11/2018 - 08:51

7. Avenue of the Arts

   ... most important streets in Philadelphia. Philadelphia founder William Penn designed it to be the main North-South thoroughfare through town. Though ...

   07/28/2019 - 06:42

8. Longwood Gardens

   ... in 1700. Pierce, a Quaker farmer, purchased 402 acres from William Penn himself. The 1730 farmhouse that was built by Pierce’s son Joshua ...

   12/23/2020 - 06:08

9. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolutionary War

   ... Square, one of the five public parks drawn up by William Penn in his 1682 blueprint for Philadelphia. In 1954, the Washington Square ...

   08/11/2020 - 00:19

10. The Declaration of Independence

    ... Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. ...

    07/16/2020 - 06:36

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