Show historic buildings in city of philadelphia its wealth of historical landmarks and associations and its close proximity with other cities and places of interest on the east coast places philadelphia on the main roadway of eastern tourist travel to the visitor interested in the nations history this city offers associations which are iden with it alone and which golsh it among all other american towns chief among these is independence pen dence hall where the liberty bell reposes and within whose walls the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states were drawn and signed many of the most interesting old landmarks are confined to a small area on the central part of own among these beng carpenters hall place of the first continental mc i congress the betsy ross house where the first american flag Is arld to have been made and old christ church place of worship of revolutionary heroes and in whose graveyard les the body of benjamin franklin congress hall Is another point of interest |