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Philadelphia Photo: Independence Hall
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Photograph by Dennis Degnan/CORBIS
George Washington was given command of the Continental Army in Independence Hall. The Declaration of Independence was adopted, and the Constitution drafted, in the hall's Assembly Room.
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