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We will spend between 90 minutes and 2 hours, per preference of the group. This is an outdoor walking tour; distance will be about 18 city blocks.
6th & Market Streets, at the Independence Visitor Center, Market Street (south) entrance.
Franklin gravesite, Academy & College plaque, Franklin sculpture, Franklin Court, Grindstone Alley, Christ Church Park, view of Ben Franklin Bridge, City Tavern, Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia Contributionship, Library Company, Philosophical Hall, Independence Hall Park, Washington statue.
Franklin’s family of origin in Boston (candles, swimming, brother printer, Silence Dogood)
Franklin’s nuclear family in Philadelphia (the soap opera of Ben, Deborah, William, Francis, Sarah, and William Temple)
Successful businessman (printer extraordinaire and able postmaster)
Successful inventor (Franklin stove, lightning rod, armonica, bifocals)
Successful civic leader (founded fire company, fire insurance company, Library Company, American Philosophical Society, militia and fort, Academy & College, hospital)
Successful diplomat (PA Assembly, Albany Conference, 16 years in England, 10 years in France, treaties with other nations)
Successful abolitionist (president of PA Abolition Society; end of slavery in PA)
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