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Connections

Welcome to Connections, where you can explore places that bring the Revolutionary Era to life. Our featured sites will give you an in-depth look at some of these historic locations. You can learn more about the American Revolution through links to sites, societies, and associations.

Featured Sites

Bartram's Garden

Bartram’s Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States. It offers visitors a rare glimpse of a pastoral 18th century landscape that was once on the front lines of the American War of Independence.

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Brandywine and Paoli Battlefields

In the rolling countryside west of Philadelphia, the battlefields of Brandywine and Paoli offer visitors a poignant reminder of the human toll of war.

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Charlotte Liberty Walk

Revolutionary history and 21st century technology merge in the Charlotte Liberty Walk (“CLW”), a new and interactive project in uptown Charlotte, N.C. The CLW links together 15 important sites regarding the American Revolution, including the Battle of Charlotte and the site of the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 20, 1775.

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Christ Church

Christ Church, located in Philadelphia's historic Old City District, is often called “The Nation’s Church.” Numerous leaders and famous characters of the American Revolution—including George and Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, John Adams and Robert Morris—worshipped here.

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City Tavern

Living in the largest and most prosperous port in North America, colonial Philadelphians enjoyed access to a tremendous range of cuisines and ingredients from across the Atlantic and the surrounding countryside.

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Fort Pitt Museum

From fiery protests and speeches of the 1760s and early 1770s, through the military and political events of the War of Independence, most American history buffs are more familiar with the Boston Tea Party, Patrick Henry, Independence Hall and Yorktown than Yellow Creek, Simon Girty, Vincennes and

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Fort Ticonderoga

Located on a strategic point of land that controls the waterways linking Montreal and New York City, Fort Ticonderoga is often called “America’s Fort.” It would be difficult to find a spot on this continent that has been fought over more fiercely, by

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Mount Vernon

More than one million visitors travel to George Washington’s Mount Vernon each year to walk in the footsteps of the planter, soldier and statesman who was, in the words of fellow Virginian Richard Henry Lee: “first in war, first in peace, and first in the

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