Liberty Bell
- Address: Market St
- Vicinity: Liberty Bell Center at S 6th St
- Neighborhood of Old City, Philly in Philadelphia, PA
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1751/00/00 | Whitechapel Bell Foundry | Foundry | Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris first orders a bell for the bell tower in 1751 from Lester and Pack Foundry in Whitechapel, London. | |||
1751/00/00 | Isaac Norris | Work | Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris first orders a bell for the bell tower in 1751 from Lester and Pack Foundry in Whitechapel, London. | |||
1753/00/00 | The Liberty Bell cracks when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and is twice recast by metalworkers John Pass and John Stow in Philadelphia. | |||||
1755/10/16 | Benjamin Franklin | Work | Benjamin Franklin writes to Catherine Ray, "Adieu, the Bell rings, and I must go among the Grave ones and talk Politicks." |
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