over to a little lane to the old Carpenter's Hall, where the Con Declaration was first talked over. Some of the quaint old chairs were there and it was a lovely old place with a delightful old library with book-case walls upstairs. Then it was time to get into Independence Hall, which we did - and it is a beauty. We saw the old Mahogany table where the Declaration was signed - and the chair &c.&c. The Liberty Bell had gone to Charleston, (I saw it in Chicago, tho') but the old beam which carried it was there. Up stairs there are five old rooms - and portraits and furniture, too. And in the long "banquet hall" across the front where wounded soldiers of the Revolution were laid, still is preserved a few feet of the old flooring & a "pew" from Christ Church, which Washington used to occupy. We went to the museum room, next door, too - where there are many relics. John Paul Jone's beer stein. Charles Carroll's white silk wedding vest and John Quincy Adams baby layette - beautifully hand embroidered by his mother. Autograph letters from Geo. & Martha Washington, George's spectacles (we saw another pair at Mt. Vernon) &c. "don't tread on me" flags.
over to a little lane to the old Carpenter's Hall, where the Con Declaration was first talked over. Some of the quaint old chairs were there and it was a lovely old place with a delightful old library with book-case walls upstairs. Then it was time to get into Independence Hall, which we did - and it is a beauty. We saw the old Mahogany table where the Declaration was signed - and the chair &c.&c. The Liberty Bell had gone to Charleston, (I saw it in Chicago, tho') but the old beam which carried it was there. Up stairs there are five old rooms - and portraits and furniture, too. And in the long "banquet hall" across the front where wounded soldiers of the Revolution were laid, still is preserved a few feet of the old flooring & a "pew" from Christ Church, which Washington used to occupy. We went to the museum room, next door, too - where there are many relics. John Paul Jone's beer stein. Charles Carroll's white silk wedding vest and John Quincy Adams baby layette - beautifully hand embroidered by his mother. Autograph letters from Geo. & Martha Washington, George's spectacles (we saw another pair at Mt. Vernon) &c. "don't tread on me" flags.
over to a little lane to the old Carpenter's Hall, where the Con Declaration was first talked over. Some of the quaint old chairs were there and it was a lovely old place with a delightful old library with book-case walls upstairs. Then it was time to get into Independence Hall, which we did - and it is a beauty. We saw the old Mahogany table where the Declaration was signed - and the chair &c.&c. The Liberty Bell had gone to Charleston, (I saw it in Chicago, tho') but the old beam which carried it was there. Up stairs there are five old rooms - and portraits and furniture, too. And in the long "banquet hall" across the front where wounded soldiers of the Revolution were laid, still is preserved a few feet of the old flooring & a "pew" from Christ Church, which Washington used to occupy. We went to the museum room, next door, too - where there are many relics. John Paul Jone's beer stein. Charles Carroll's white silk wedding vest and John Quincy Adams baby layette - beautifully hand embroidered by his mother. Autograph letters from Geo. & Martha Washington, George's spectacles (we saw another pair at Mt. Vernon) &c. "don't tread on me" flags.
