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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t Valley Green, a stone bridge crosses the Wissahickon. CARPENTERS HALL. On the south side of Chestnut Street, about midway between Thiraand Fourth Streets, an iron railing guards the passage-way to a buildingwhich deserves more than any other the proud title of the cradle ofAmerican Independence. It is Carpenters Hall, the place where, asan inscription on the wall proudly testifies, Henry, Hancock, andAdams inspired the Delegates of the Colonies with Nerve and Sinewfor the Toils of War ; the place where the first Continental Congressmet, and where the famous first prayer in Congress was deliveredby Parson Duche on the morning after the news of the bombardmentof Boston had been received, and men knew that the war was indeedinevitable. Here the first Provincial Assembly held its sittings, tobe succeeded by the British troops, and afterwards by the first UnitedStates Bank, and still later by the Bank of Pennsylvania. Built in 1770, Carpenters Hall was at first intended only for the uses
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26 CEMETERIES. of the Society of Carpenters, by whom it was founded. Its central loca-tion, however, caused it to be used for the meetings of delegates to the Continental Congress, andfor other public purposes;and when no longer neededfor these, it passed from ten-ant to tenant, until it degen-erated into an auction-room.Then the Company of Car-penters, taking patrioticcounsel, resumed control ofit, fitted it up to representas nearly as might be itsappearance in Revolution-ary days, and it is now keptas a sacred relic. The wallsare hung with interestingmementos of the times thattried mens souls. The dooris always open to the pa-triotic visitor. Visitors from the northernand northwestern sections ofthe city reach CarpentersHall by the cars on Second Street, which, at Chestnut Street, passwithin two squares ; by the Fourth Street cars, which, at ChestnutStreet, pass within a few doors ; by the cars of the Union line (MarketStreet branch), which, at Fourth and Market Streets, pass within

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