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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLO_strengthening-ties-with-the-united-states-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
In December of 1798, Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of the revolutionary government in the French colony of San Domingue, sent Joseph Bunel to Philadelphia to negotiate a trade agreement. Two months later, the Adams administration formally opened t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLN_history-lost-found-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
ARCHEOLOGY
Archeologists not only dig in remote places to uncover ancient civilizations, but they also look for artifacts at urban sites such as this one. Look below for remnants of the President's House foundation using the diagram as a guide.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLM_washingtons-death-and-a-renewed-hope-for-freedom-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
When President John Adams ordered a day of mourning throughout the nation to mark George Washington's death in 1799, Reverend Richard Allen saw an opportunity for the Free African Community of Philadelphia to expand the meaning of liberty. He call…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XL1_the-irish-in-america-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
The first wave of Hunger Emigrants faced enormous difficulties, but they found a foothold in what became America's first urban, ethnic ghettos. Often, they lived in overcrowded hovels beset by disease, crime, unemployment, drink, and despair. Thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XL0_the-lessons-of-the-great-hunger-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
This memorial commemorates the struggle and pain of those Irish who fled their homeland in the face of a hunger of catastrophic proportions. It celebrates their courage and honors them for opening the door for others. Their story springs from one …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKZ_the-irish-memorial-leacht-cuimhneachain-na-ngael-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
Erected to commemorate An Gorta Mór -
Ireland's Great Hunger of 1845 - 1850
when more than one million Irish
were starved to death and another million
forced to emigrate. We celebrate the
indefatigable spirit of the Irish that enabled
the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKY_arrival-and-reception-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
The New World was often hostile to this flood of impoverished Irish immigrants. In America's cities, including Philadelphia, they arrived to face the native "Know-Nothing" movement, which defined "American" in terms that excluded the newly arrivin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKU_starvation-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
The Great Hunger in Ireland led to the greatest loss of life in western Europe in the 100 years between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. Whole families and villages fell to starvation and accompanying diseases. Cholera, deadly fevers, dysenter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKT_passage-and-emigration-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
In hopeless circumstances at home, the Irish fled their homeland by the hundreds of thousands each year. From 1845-1855, nearly a quarter of the population emigrated, mostly from rural, Catholic, often Irish-speaking areas of Ireland. They fled to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKO_an-gorta-mor-irelands-great-hunger-historical_Philadelphia-PA.html
To this day, all over Ireland the landscape bears mute testimony to the events that occurred in the horrific period from 1845-1850. Starvation graveyards offer silent tribute to the millions of Irish men, women, and children buried in unmarked mas…