Virtual History Tour of Carpenters' Hall
Through this doorway have walked the greats of early America. Franklin... Washington... Patrick Henry... Alexander Hamilton... John and Samuel Adams to name a few. In the past two centuries visitors by the hundreds of thousands — Presidents, Governors and other public officials, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and most importantly, school children and tourists from here and abroad — have crossed this threshold to history. Why do they come? To see the place, and perhaps capture some of the spirit, of colonial delegates who began here the task of inventing the largest popular democracy the world has yet seen.
VIRTUAL HISTORY TOUR INDEX
- Introduction to the Tour
- Carpenters' Hall in the Revolution
- The Right Building in the Right Place
- 800 Members... 300 Years
- Franklin's Library Company
- First Steps Toward Independence
- The Rector Who Changed His Mind
- Paul Revere's Other Rides
- The French Connection
- The Birthplace of Pennsylvania
- The Great Bank Heist of 1798
