[Illustration: INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK] POINTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST WITHIN PARK AREA 1. INDEPENDENCE HALL GROUP OF BUILDINGS 2. PHILOSOPHICAL HALL 3. LIBRARY HALL (SITE OF) 4. SECOND BANK OF THE UNITED STATES 5. DILWORTH-TODD-MOYLAN HOUSE 6. BISHOP WHITE HOUSE 7. CITY TAVERN (SITE OF) 8. PHILADELPHIA (MERCHANTS’) EXCHANGE 9. FIRST BANK OF THE UNITED STATES 10. CARPENTERS’ HALL 11. FRANKLIN COURT (SITE OF FRANKLIN’S HOUSE) 12. & 13. CHRIST CHURCH AND CEMETERY 14. GLORIA DEI (OLD SWEDES’) CHURCH 15. DESHLER-MORRIS HOUSE (5442 GERMANTOWN AVE. NOT SHOWN) OTHER POINTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST 16. ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 17. ATWATER KENT MUSEUM 18. HOLY TRINITY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 19. OLD PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 20. ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 21. POWEL HOUSE 22. ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (CITY MISSION) 23. ST. JOSEPH’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 24. BETSY ROSS HOUSE 25. FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE 26. FREE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE 27. ST. GEORGE’S METHODIST CHURCH {diagonally hatched} STATE AREA {shaded} FEDERAL AREA DELAWARE RIVER BRIDGE RACE ST. CHERRY ST. ELFRETHS ALLEY ARCH ST. MARKET ST. ORIANNA ST. CHESTNUT ST. LIBRARY ST. WALNUT ST. DOCK ST. CHRISTIAN ST. SWANSON LOCUST ST. SPRUCE ST. SIXTH ST. INDEPENDENCE HALL FIFTH ST. FOURTH ST. THIRD ST. SECOND ST. FRONT ST. DELAWARE AVE. FRONT ST. WATER ST. DELAWARE AVE. The Governor, on March 13, 1815, approved an act authorizing the County Commissioners of Philadelphia to take charge of the State House and to rent out the space as they considered advisable. All profits obtained were to be used to make repairs and improvements on the building. Having released the State from responsibility for its State House, the Legislature next sought to realize from this property a sum of money to be used in building the new capitol at Harrisburg. In an act, approved March 11, 1816, the Legislature provided for the sale of the square and its buildings. This act required the Governor to appoint three commissioners (none from Philadelphia) to lay out a street, or streets, through the square “in such manner as in their opinion will most conduce to the value of the property.” The square was to be divided into lots suitable for building; the total amount to be realized was not to be less than $150,000. One section of the act, however, saved the State House. This provided that the City of Philadelphia should have the privilege of purchasing the building and square for the sum of $70,000. The City Councils promptly passed an ordinance to purchase the property and took title on March 23, 1818. This was a financial and spiritual investment unequaled in the history of American cities.