Heart of America: Philadelphia Prison Tour

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Heart of America: Philadelphia Prison Tour

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania audio tour: Heart of America: Philadelphia Prison Tour
This is a 0.5mi walking tour
It takes an average of 20 mins to complete.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Archived
This tour isn’t available for download. We’ve preserved the script and audio as a record of its moment in time, but we don’t recommend doing the tour. It was published in May 2017.
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About the Tour

Come join an intrepid team of American investigative history street scourers as they voyage from one major American symbol to next: Liberty! Freedom! Prisons. Human rights abuses. Bad art. You think you know America? Well, wait til you see America.

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Rebecca Katherine Hirsch

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Preview Location

Location 1

Liberty Starting Bell

D: Here you are, 5th and Chestnut, on the block with Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.

R: In front of you is the chain-link fence and cobbled Chestnut Street. Behind you to your left is the large open field of Independence National Historical Park.

D: It smells l... Read More
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Major Landmarks

  • Independence Hall Philadelphia

  • Liberty Bell Philadelphia

Getting There

Route Overview

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  1. Start location
    526 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
  2. Total distance
    867m
  3. Final location
    700 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
  4. Distance back to start location
    414.61m

Directions to Starting Point

Start in front of Independence Hall, roughly a block from the SEPTA station at 5th and Market (the blue Market-Frankford line).

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

The end of the route is only a few blocks from Chinatown and the Reading Terminal Market. Continue along Arch St.

Best time of day

During the day, so you are accompanied by regular tourists and the horses that prey on them.

Precautions

Don't get sucked in. Keep perspective. Remember to look critically at all art and history: nothing is objective or pure, not even these precautions. Be careful of cars.

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