William Penn's New Town

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 14

On March 4, 1681, Charles II granted William Penn a vast tract of land in the New World as payment for the debt the King owed Penn's father. The tract awarded to Penn included all ...

William Penn

On his first visit to America

1682 - 1684

came farthest north

on Schuylkill River

fifty miles up

from the Falls of Schuylkill

to or near the mouth of Monocacy Creek

three fourth of a mile

south-[direction erased] of this marker

Relocated

October 6, 1945

Marker is on Benjamin Franklin Highway ...

William Penn

1644 - 1718

First lodged in America

in "Essex House" on this site

October 28, 1682

the guest of

Robert Wade

Here the earliest Quaker settler

on this side Delaware River, 1676,

purchaser of the property,

then called "Printzdorp,"

from ...

William Penn Carriage Block and Hitching Post

This carriage block and hitching post

originally stood in front of the home of

William Penn

Letitia Street

Philadelphia

Courtesy hmdb.org

William Penn’s First Walking Purchase

This site, Towissinck or Jericho Creek, was the northern boundary of Penn’s 1st purchase of Native American land on July 15, 1682. The land purchase was measured by the distance a man could walk in a day and a half, ...

Camp William Penn

Camp

William Penn

1863-1865

Training camp for colored troops

enlisted into the

United States Army

erected by

Allied Veterans Association

of Pennsylvania

July 4, 1943

Marker is at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Willow Street on Sycamore Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Landing Place of William Penn

Near here October 27, 1682, William Penn first stepped on American soil. He proceeded to the fort and performed Livery of Seisin. “He took the key, thereof,…we did deliver unto him 1 turf with a twig upon it, a porringer ...

William Penn

Came here to the home of Col. Thomas Tailler on “the ridge” December 13, 1682 for his first conference with Charles Lord Baltimore as to the location of the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Marker is on Solomon’s Island Road ...

William Penn

Attended a meeting of the Friends (Quakers) at Thomas Hooker’s December 1682 on this tract called “Brownton” (patented in 1652 for 660 acres). Penn sailed from here across the Bay to the Choptank River to a General Meeting of the ...