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Ben Franklin's grave site
This is the burial site of Benjamin Franklin. He's buried with his wife, Deborah at the Christ Church Burial Ground at the corner of 5th St and Arch St. There are four other signers of the Declaration of Independence in this burial ground as well as one of the two surveyers of the Mason-Dixon Line. Unfortunately, they have no idea where Mr Mason is buried as some of the records from that time were lost to posterity. Also, people that were buried before the Civil War were placed where there was room. It's only after the Civil War that people were buried in rows. You probably have also noticed all the pennies on Ben Franklin's grave. That's actually considered to bring you good luck if you throw pennies on his grave as he was the one that said A penny saved, is a penny earned. I also did get permission to film in the burial ground.
Ben Franklin, Christchurch Cemetary, Philadelphia
A visit to Benjamin Franklin's grave at Christchurch Cemetary, Philadelphia, PA.
Philadelphia up-close - Christ Church cemetery featuring the grave of Benj. Franklin1
In this cemetery located Philadelphia are interred Benjamin Franklin and other figures in American history including George Ross, Joseph Hewes, Francis Hopkinson and Benjamin Rush, all signers of the Declaration of Independence.
David RITTENHOUSE a most humble special man resting place 1796 Laural Hill Cemetery Philadelphia
O wow and not even one book about this man-- can't understand why. As this person has had a wealth of history from a clock Maker to a land surveyor to the math genius and yes he created the fascinating Orreries scale of the Solar system* that u can look up. And to top it off he was the US Mints first director minting the first coins. His Friend's were Thomos Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington ect. --- this is just a drop in the bucket what he was .----but it was the very first coins that I proudly have and they are the 1793 CHAIN, WREATH and Liberty Cap cents that as a kid was only a dream to have.
So I decided I needed to visit this VERY important person in our history-- especially if u own all 3 penny designs 1793s and a few other early special coins. I think any serious early American Coin numismatist should go for a visit.
It is the few people of huge significance but with a very humble presence but carried a huge significance to the early days of the United States.And so while Washington was running abouts and Benjamin was flying his kite ---- David was minting the first coins for the United States and hey that was a huge responsibility if u ask me*.
An Afternoon at Christ Church Burial Ground - Philadelphia Vlog
History Is Important! During a recent trip to Philadelphia to see Frank Turner, I was able to squeeze a bunch of historical sites into my day. I spent some of my afternoon at the Christ Church Burial Ground which is where Ben Franklin and other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried.
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A walk through the historic Christ Church Burial Grounds in Philadelphia
Walking among the tombstones at the historic Christ Church Burial Grounds in Center City Philadelphia
Christ Church Burial Grounds - Research Photos - Our Haunted Travels
Christ Church Burial Grounds - Research Photos
In this paranormal history video, we are providing a slide show of the research photos we took when we visited the Christ Church Burial Grounds in Philadelphia in 2015. There are many photographs from throughout the entire cemetery and we tried our best to capture as much as possible for research and documentation purposes. This is also the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife Deborah.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania.
Christ Church Burial Ground (cemetery):
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush, Francis Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes and George Ross
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Did you know that one of the most famous Revolutionary war heroes in America was from Poland? As I've been living in Poland for a while now, I've decided to visit the house of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Philadelphia, PA.
On today's episode of Kult America I invite you to join me and my cousin on a road trip across the US to see some important historical sites: Benjamin Franklin's grave, a marker from the Mason-Dixon line, which divided America into slave and nonslave states, and of corse the point where three states collide!
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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.[2] He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department[3] and the University of Pennsylvania.[4]
Franklin earned the title of The First American for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.[5] Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.[6] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.[7]
Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette at the age of 23.[8] He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he authored under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of British policies.
He pioneered and was first president of Academy and College of Philadelphia which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania. He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected president in 1769. Franklin became a national hero in America as an agent for several colonies when he spearheaded an effort in London to have the Parliament of Great Britain repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing shipments of crucial munitions from France.
He was promoted to deputy postmaster-general for the British colonies in 1753, having been Philadelphia postmaster for many years, and this enabled him to set up the first national communications network. During the revolution, he became the first United States Postmaster General. He was active in community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. He initially owned and dealt in slaves but, by the 1750s, he argued against slavery from an economic perspective and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and his status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored more than two centuries after his death on coinage and the $100 bill, warships, and the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, and corporations, as well as countless cultural references.
Christ Church - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Christ Church Philadelphia
This church's congregation has included Ben Franklin, George Washington and Betsy Ross.
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The Ghost of Benjamin Franklin - Our Haunted Travels
The Ghost of Benjamin Franklin
In this paranormal history video, Boris will provide you with the paranormal claims of the most common ghost stories from Philadelphia, and that is of Ben Franklin’s ghost spotted on the streets he once walked everyday. There are a view haunted locations throughout this area that are related to sightings of the ghost of Ben Franklin including Independence Hall, The Philosophical Society’s Library Hall, Franklin Court, and of course, Christ Church Burial Grounds.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia's first fire department and the University of Pennsylvania.
Christ Church Burial Ground (cemetery):
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush, Francis Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes and George Ross
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Philadelphia, Christ Church
The Christ Church in Philadelphia carries the same aristocratic air that is the marque of the city: the cathedral of a community of people feeling independent from the very beginning, long before the Independence War.
I visited the church, walking slowly and staring at all those signs of great history: there is certainly greatness there, but also grace. It is monumental, yet friendly; it is friendly, yet keeping its class.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laurel Hill Cemetery, overlooking the Schuylkill River, founded by John Jay Smith (June 27, 1798-Sept. 25, 1881) with partners Nathan Dunn, Benjamin W. Richards and Frederick Brown in 1836, it was the second Garden or Rural cemetery in the United States (after Cambridge, Massachusetts' Mount Auburn Cemetery). John Jay Smith also founded West Laurel Hill Cemetery, over City Line in Montgomery Township, where he is buried. Selected as designer for Laurel Hill was architect John Notman (1810--1865), born in Scotland and educated at the Royal Scottish Academy. Notman conceived of the Cemetery as an estate garden, based in part on English ideas of planned landscapes as transitions between art and nature. Many early visitors and funeral-goers traveled to Laurel Hill via steamboat on the Schuylkill River. The graves of several Revolutionary War heroes were moved to Laurel Hill from other cemeteries in Philadelphia. A famous one was that of Hugh Mercer born on January 17, 1726, Roseharty, Scotland. At the beginning of the1745, Mercer became an assistant surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Charles Edward Stuart. In the aftermath of Culloden, Mercer was forced to flee, emigrating to America in 1747. After 8 years of practicing medicine, Mercer was drawn back into the military and was commissioned as a captain in a Pennsylvania, and had risen to the rank of colonel by the end of the French & Indian War. In 1757, Mercer became a member of the St. Andrews Society of Philadelphia. Promoted to brigadier general by the Continental Congress, General Mercer was mortally wounded during the Battle of Princeton, and though attended to by the famed patriot Dr. Benjamin Rush, he died on January 12, 1777.
Laurel Hill Cemetery is noted for many Civil War figures who were buried here during and after the war, including over 40 generals, and other officers, such as Horace Binney Faust, Civil War Union Army Officer. Born Oct. 15, 1843, he died in the service of his country on December 18, 1863 at Bealton Station, Virginia. His parents, David Faust (b.October 27, 1814 in Lehigh County-d. May 9, 1907) and Jane Dungan Faust (b.Aug. 30, 1817 in Bucks County- d.May 7, 1892) are buried here next to him, but their grave markers are no longer standing. Philadelphia Mayor Reyburn was one of the Honorary Pall-Bearers at the funeral of David Faust a widely known business man and financier, President Emeritus of Union National Bank of 39 years.
Many thousands of monuments, mausoleums, statues, lavish sculptures, unusual carvings, and every type of gravestone are in Laurel Hill, The ostentatious and interspersed with the practical and plain, such as that of Dr. David Colin Urquhart, born at Pennicuick, Scotland, May 4, 1812. That thrifty Scotsman, who died January 6, 1884, chose a sturdy, unoramented gravestone for all those buried in the plot, (similar to that of Owen Jones) including his wife, Anna Carroll Urquhart, (great-granddaughter of Captain David Weatherby of Revolutionary War fame), and two sons, a daughter-in-law, infant grandson, and daughter.
Some of the famous people whose graves are shown:
• Owen Jones, b. December 29, 1819 - d. December 25, 1878. US Congressman, Civil War Union Army Officer.
•Sarah Josepha Hale, Oct. 24, 1788 - April 30, 1879 Journalist, Poet, Founder of the Thanksgiving Holiday. She wrote and edited Godey's Lady's Book from 1837 to 1877.
•Thomas McKean, b. March 19, 1734 - d. June 24, 1817 Signer of Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. Served as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Elected 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1799 to 1808.
•Elisha Kent Kane, b. Feb. 3, 1820 -- d. Feb. 16, 1857 Explorer and part of the Grinnell Expedition of 1850 to the Arctic Circle to find the remains of the 1845-1846 Sir John Franklin expedition.
•George Gordon Meade, b. December 31, 1815 Cadiz, Spain - d. November 6, 1872.Civil War Union Major General. Known universally for being the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg and his famous, faithful horse Old Baldy.
•Joshua Thomas Owen, Born in Caermarthen, Wales March 29, 1821-- d. Nov. 7, 1887. Civil War Union Brigadier General.
•Thomas Buchanan Read was born in Chester County March 12, 1822 died May 11, 1872. Poet, Artist, Sculptor.
•Joseph Reed, b. August 27, 1741 d. March 5, 1785 Revolutionary War Army Officer, Continental Congressman; military secretary to George Washington.
• Clark Henry Wells, b. September 22, 1822 - d. January 28, 1888 Civil War Union Naval Officer
Independence Hall Tour in Philadelphia
Tour of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Christ Church Burial Ground
Christ Church Burial Ground, final resting place of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush as well as other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Also buried here is Commodore William Bainbridge who surrendered the USS Philadelphia to the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli.
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Ghost tour of Philadelphia
Join the original Ghost Tour of Philadelphia on a Candlelight Walking Tour of Independence Park and Society Hill, and discover the secrets hidden in the shadows of America's most historic and most haunted city!
Who haunts Independence Hall? Where does Ben Franklin's ghost appear? Who's buried in Washington Square? Enjoy a candlelight stroll along the back streets and secret gardens of Philly's historic district, where mysterious tales of ghostly spirits, haunted houses, and eerie graveyards lurk in the night!
Tours are available every night by reservation year-round. Ghost Hunts and Haunted Trolley Tours are also available.
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