Jenn's Junque

This is the actual chair that George Washington presided in as President of the Constitutional Convention. The sun carving on it is famous. After the Constitution was finalized for the time being, Franklin said, "I have often - in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issues - looked at that [sun] behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Did you know that Washington and Franklin both only expected the Constitution to hold the country together for approximately twenty years?


This is George Washington's statue in front of Independance Hall. There are also markers on the ground where Abe Lincoln and JFK stood to give speeches.


The first floor of Independance Hall was a courtroom before and after the Revolutionary war. The metal gate is where the defendant would stand during trial, which is why we still say "he will stand trial for his crime." The courtroom in the Congress Hall had a much nicer wooden area for the defendant to stand.