History in Pennsylvania

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

The oldest continually operating golf course in the United States.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.