Benjamin Franklin's Birthplace - Satellite Oddity - Boston, Massachusetts
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member veritas vita
N 42° 21.467 W 071° 03.536
19T E 330439 N 4691554
This bust of Benjamin Franklin - Featured on Virtual Globetrotting, the Satellite Oddity Website. Franklin is displayed at the location of his birthplace, Opposite the Old South Meeting House. Located in Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Waymark Code: WMY5J0
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
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Franklin's birthplace site is directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street and is commemorated by a bust above the second floor facade of this building.

This hero size, plaster bust of Benjamin Franklin is mounted high above the first floor level of an ornate building said to be the birthplace Franklin (1706-1790) Located near the Freedom Trail, opposite the Old South Meeting House on Milk Street, Boston.

Benjamin Franklin was an author, diplomat, inventor, printer, scientist, & one of the members of the Committee with Thomas Jefferson which drafted the US Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

"Embedded in the wall of the building at 17 Milk Street, on the 2nd floor, is a bust of Franklin, with the label "Birthplace of Franklin."
In 1706, Benjamin Franklin was born in a humble little house on Milk Street. The old house stood a hundred and twenty years, and was greatly respected as a notable landmark. The building was destroyed by fire in 1811, which was keenly regretted by Boston's inhabitants, especially by its older citizens."
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