Center of Creation of the Republic

Creating the Declaration of Independence | Creating the United States Constitution | Creating the Bill of Rights

Revolution of the Mind | Battle Joined | Founded on a Set of Beliefs | Peace

A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, survey’d by Nicholas Scull and George Heap. Engraved by Will Faden. London: W. Faden, 1777. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (38)
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At the time of the creation of the American republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a cosmopolitan urban port with the second largest population in America north of Mexico. For most of the years between 1775 and 1800, the city was the focal point of American national government. The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were written there.