Today we continue to follow Meriwether Lewis from Lancaster to Philadelphia, PA.
*On 5/7/1803, Meriwether Lewis departed from Lancaster, PA by stagecoach, headed to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Lewis purchased Pennsylvania long guns, tomahawks and knives. On 5/10/1803, he began attending crash courses at the University of Pennsylvania: in botany, paleontology, navigation, and field medicine. He also visited the Philadelphia Museum, curated by Charles Willson Peale, in what is now called Independence Hall.*
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| We used our free senior Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority/SEPTA passes to ride the regional rail Media/Elwyn Line into Philadelphia |
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| 30th Street Station is also the Amtrak station |
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| 30th Street Station (1927-1933, by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, in neo-Classical style, balanced with an interior in Art Deco style) |
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| We used the Metro (Market-Frankford Line) to reach Independence National Historical Park |
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| We happened to pass the grave of Benjamin Franklin |
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| At 712 Arch Street, historical marker for Benjamin Smith Barton who tutored Meriwether Lewis in natural history and botany |
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| Dragon sculptures (2009, the L by Paul Whittle and the R by Ward Elicker) |
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| Chinatown at Arch and N 9th Streets |
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| On S 9th Street near Market Street, historical marker for Robert Patterson, who taught Meriwether Lewis about navigation |
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| Lincoln Legacy Mural (2006, by Joshua Sarantiti) was created from glass mosaic pieces |
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| We passed the Liberty Bell Pavilion |
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| Independence Hall (1753 as the Pennsylvania state house) is better known for the Declaration of Independence and the United State Constitution; however, Meriwether Lewis visited the Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum located here in the Long Gallery on the second floor |
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| American Philosophical Society Building (1785-1789, by Samuel Vaughan in Federal style) was home to the museum of Charles Willson Peale from 1794-1802 |
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| At 240 S 4th Street, historical marker for Caspar Wistar, who prepared Meriwether Lewis in anatomy and paleontology |
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| Caspar Wistar's Residence (c 1750) behind ubiquitous scaffolding |
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| A very large rat on S 4th Street |
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| A "protest" rat representing a company that does not pay appropriate wages (KSS) |
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| Benjamin Rush Garden on the site of his residence at S 3rd and Walnut Streets; Benjamin Rush, physician, taught Meriwether Lewis field medicine |
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| Benjamin Rush Garden (KSS) |
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| Second Bank of the United States (1818-1824, by William Strickland in Greek Revival style) now houses the Independence National Historical Park Portrait Gallery with a collection of works by Charles Willson Peale that were once displayed in his Philadelphia Museum |
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| Self-portrait (c 1795, by Charles Willson Peale) |
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| Meriwether Lewis (1907, by Charles Willson Peale) |
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| William Clark (1807-1808, by Charles Willson Peale) |
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| Thomas Jefferson (1791-1792, by Charles Willson Peale) |
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| Benjamin Rush (1818, by Charles Willson Peale after Thomas Sully) |
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| This room of the Portrait Gallery was set up like Peale's Philadelphia Museum in Independence Hall, with his portraits of the most distinguished Americans of his day, plus displays of Native American artifacts and taxidermy birds, just as Meriwether Lewis would have seen it |
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| American Bald Eagle (prepared c 1805 by a member of the Peale family) |
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| One of the museum portraits was a Hamilton ancestor, George Duffield (c 1790, by Charles Peale Polk, a nephew of Charles Willson Peale) |
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| The Signer (1980-1982, by Evangelos Frudakis) is modeled on George Clymer, a Philadelphia merchant and statesman who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States |
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| XOXO (2016, by NextFab) |
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| Religious Freedom (1876, by Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel) was commissioned by B'nai B'rith |
*On 6/10/1803, a Conestoga wagon arranged by Meriwether Lewis and loaded with 3500 pounds of supplies and equipment for the western expedition, left Philadelphia for Harpers Ferry, via Lancaster, York, and Gettysburg, PA.
On 6/17/1803, Meriwether Lewis left Philadelphia for Washington, DC.*
We will return home before heading again to DC ourselves.
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