May 24, 2005  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin burial site in Christ Church Burial Ground
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/grave.htm

Graff House where Thomas Jefferson rented two upstairs rooms in which he drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Betsy Ross grave

Congress Hall where the House of Representatives and the Senate met from 1790 to 1800 when the seat of government was moved to Washington D.C.  George Washington and John Adams took their oaths of office in this room.  I didn't take any pictures of the outside, but this building is just to the left of Independence Hall in the photographs to the far right.

Independence Hall

The room in Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were created and adopted.  The chair at the head of the room is the one that Benjamin Franklin commented on not knowing if it was a rising or a setting sun.

The Liberty Bell cracked sometime between 1817 and 1846--no one knows exactly when it happened.