5th and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 24, 1971. NRIS 71000062.
1 contributing site.
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush, Francis Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes, and George Ross. Two additional signers of the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson and Robert Morris, are buried at Christ Church just a few blocks away.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997542