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Things to do
in Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Attractions
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African American Museum in Philadelphia
Celebrating the life and contributions to people, the African-American Museum
is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of documents and material
of African-American people in Philadelphia, Delware Valley, and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Constructed on the same location as the Black community, the
Museum tells the African-American story as it relates to: family life, the
Civil Rights movement, arts and entertainment, sports, medicine, architecture,
politics, religion, law and technology.
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Arch Street Friends Meeting House
Donated by William Penn, the Meeting House was built in 1804 and is the
oldest building in Philadelphia. Business meetings are still held in this very
build once a month in addition to a yearly meeting that is held by Friends
living in Philadelphia. Untypical of a traditional Christian church, the
Meeting House has a large square room with no pulpit, no stained glass windows,
no religious icons hanging from the walls and no shrines are found at all.
Meetings never had a person in charge, neither was the large room used for
preaching, but Friends waited in silence until someone felt the "light" to
share a message.
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Betsy Ross House
Visited by 250,000 tourist annually, the Betsy Ross House was inhabited by her
from 1773 to 1786. Viewing of this house would not have been possible without
the faithful donations made by two million Americans. Consisting of nine
rooms divided up between two and half floors, Betsy lived here while she
faithfully devoted here life to husband and seven daughters. However,
Bety's is best known for the project that she was charged to do for George
Washington. Not a seamstress by trade, she undertook the task of sewing the
first American flag ever that flew over the colonial militias.
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