Independence Hall History

Last Sunday, the First Oval Office Project came to Stratford Hall, where visitors engaged with historic interpreters and interacted with a handmade reproduction of General George Washington’s Revolutionary War encampment! Stratford Hall was home to Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee—the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence. Another Stratford Hall resident was none other than Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, who gave the famous “First in war, first in peace” eulogy for

Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln In this edition of "On Location" with a National Park Service Ranger, Ranger Thomas Daniels presents, "Independence Hall and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln." Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, an elaborate public funeral returned his body to Illinois for burial. In Philadelphia, Lincoln's remains lay in repose in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall, where just four years earlier Lincoln had spoken of his