Profile JOIN. Log in to get trip updates and message other travelers. Select Date and Travelers. Select tour language. Check Availability. What to Expect. We walk directly up to The Liberty Bell and will discuss its history, damage, and significance in American history and as an icon of These United States. Duration: 5 minutes Stop At: Independence Hall, Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia, PA Independence Hall where the Declaration and Constitution were signed sits directly across the street from a known brothel and den of iniquity in where statesman and sports alike were known to frequent.
Contextualizing debates for independence, the war, and founding of The United States with baser urges, philandering, and the sex industry in is what you will here in this location. Contextualized on this site will be the presidencies and military governorship occurring on this spot, along with darker histories of the location both during and after the revolutionary period; including the significance of archaeological excavations to the revelations.
We have a daytime tour exploring the rosier side of our founders. This tour is not that. And explores the darker side of America's founding by imperfect men, flawed and motivated on occasion by self-interest and lust. We visit them, contextualize the suffering, and retell the ghost stories and haunted lore here. We discuss here less known facets of The Founder's personality, his often troubling relations with other Founding Fathers, and the affairs in which he engaged. Grave robbery and bizarre medical practices of the eighteenth century also are explored.
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Rich Piro wrote a review Nov All the Good Stuff. Amazing tour. I grew up near Philly and am in the city a lot. Never knew some of the things i learned on this tour. Brittney was the tour guide I had and she was fantastic. Made the tour fun even though it was cold and raining. She was awesome. I would absolutely recommend this β¦. Read more. Date of experience: November Helpful Share.
