, home of the First Continental Congress. None other than Ben Franklin himself will join the Carpenters' Company, OLIN, Bartram's Garden, and the National Park Service to plant the two, six-foot ...

Cordially, Bartram named the lovely tree after his good friend, Ben Franklin. ... home of the first Continental Congress. In the lead-up to America’s 250th birthday in 2026, ...

After a brief return to America, where he served as a member of the Second Continental Congress, Franklin was dispatched to France to secure recognition of the new United States.

President-elect Donald Trump has long threatened to ax the nation’s mail agency, created in Independence Hall by the Second Continental Congress, and older than the nation itself.