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Ground plan of the President's House, 2004.
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NPS archaeologist Jed Levin and IHA historian Ed Lawler marked the full-sized outline of the President's House in the entrance plaza of the Liberty Bell Center for an October 30, 2004 public forum on the site.

Credit: Picture courtesy of ushistory.org

This overlay marks the outline of the house that President George Washington occupied with his family and slaves during the 1790s. How to interpret the history of enslaved African Americans in the shadow of Independence Hall became a source of great contention in the early 2000s.

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