The Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Philadelphia . I Q. _JUl a< Ia. uI CO O I UJ I- Hi IH THE LIBERTY BELL INl)HPl^.NDl:NCn HALL PHILADELPHIA. BY ,« CHARLES S. KEYSEK 1901 COPYRIGHT CHARLES S. KEYSEf IQOI DUNLAP Printing Co., Publishers:^332-36 Cherry Street INDEPENDENCE HALL Independence Hall, ihiladelphia, comprises three main build-ings. A central structure—the State House with offices adjoin-ing—and two separate buildings, one erected for the city andthe other for the county of Philadelphia. The central building was designed and l)uilt b\ .drewHamilton, a Barrister of Ph


The Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Philadelphia . I Q. _JUl a< Ia. uI CO O I UJ I- Hi IH THE LIBERTY BELL INl)HPl^.NDl:NCn HALL PHILADELPHIA. BY ,« CHARLES S. KEYSEK 1901 COPYRIGHT CHARLES S. KEYSEf IQOI DUNLAP Printing Co., Publishers:^332-36 Cherry Street INDEPENDENCE HALL Independence Hall, ihiladelphia, comprises three main build-ings. A central structure—the State House with offices adjoin-ing—and two separate buildings, one erected for the city andthe other for the county of Philadelphia. The central building was designed and l)uilt b\ .drewHamilton, a Barrister of Philadelphia. The two others, the lotsfor which he procured, and for the erection of which he createda trust, were not built imtil after the close of the whole together has a frontage on Chestnut street of 396feet, and was at the time of its completion the largest l)uildingfor State and municipal purposes in the country. The story of its construction is as follows: On the first ofthe third month 1729 the representatives, as they styled them-selves, of the free men of Pennsylvania, in General Assemblymet, determined to bu


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