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The Jay Treaty, which secured a temporary peace with Great Britain, was also ratified at Congress Hall in 1796. [8] After the capital moved to Washington, Congress Hall returned to its original function as the Philadelphia County Courthouse and served as the location of both state and federal courts during the early 19th century. [2]
Next to Independence Hall is Carpenters' Hall, the 1774 meeting site for the First Continental Congress, and Congress Hall, the meeting place of the United States Congress in the 1790s prior to the establishment of Washington, D.C. as the nation's capital in 1800.
The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers. All-number ...
A historical marker for the Historical Society at 1300 Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historic research facility headquartered on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. It is a repository for millions of historic items ranging across rare books, scholarly monographs, family chronicles ...
The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is a preserved home once rented by American author Edgar Allan Poe, located at 532 N. 7th Street, in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though Poe lived in many houses over several years in Philadelphia (1838 to 1844), it is the only one which still survives. [2]
Old City Hall - Independence National Historical Park (Official Website) Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1432, "Philadelphia City Hall", 6 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 measured drawings, 5 data pages, 2 photo caption pages, supplemental material
Lower North Philadelphia: Natural history: Victorian cases and hand-labeled natural history specimens arranged in the 1880s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: Center City: Jewish: Story of Jews in America Wells Fargo History Museum: Center City: History: Include a stagecoach, telegraph equipment, historic clothing and currency ...