Your Bi-Weekly Blog of Fascinating Facts & Interesting Oddities
Robert Smith’s Secret Work
Philly's top Colonial builder/architect helped bottle up 250 British supply ships
George Washington’s Big Surprise
If he didn't rotate his slaves out of Pa.
every six months … they'd be freed!
Medical Mansion
Bush Hill, built by Andrew Hamilton, served as a hospital during Philly’s yellow fever epidemic
The Hamilton No One Remembers
Andrew Hamilton built both Independence Hall and the reputation of "the Philadelphia Lawyer"
John Adams, Master Manipulator
How the First Continental Congress
really ended up in Carpenters’ Hall