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Independence Hall: Then and Now

Pennsylvania State House, completed in 1753, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 and the Constitution drafted in 1787.

Today
Independence Hall, today
Rdsmith4, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayUnited States
StatusStanding
Date1753
Nearest city on the mapPhiladelphia (about 2 km)
Location39.949° N, 75.150° W
Map showing Independence Hall in 1700Independence Hall
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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–101 BCEastern North American hunter-gatherers
100 BC–499Unclaimed / no data
500–1491Eastern North American hunter-gatherers
1492–1499Lənape Haki-nk (Lenni-Lenape)
1500–1649Delaware
1650–1782Virginia
1783–1814United States of America
1815–1879United States
1880–1913United States of America
1914–todayUnited States

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Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.