Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA has many, many Masonic connections.

It stands on land purchased by William Allen, Grand Master of PA.

The ground was staked by Edmond Wolley, a Mason.
 
Thomas Boude, the brick mason, was the first Secretary of St. John's Lodge
of Philadelphia and later Deputy Grand Master.
 
Benjamin Franklin laid the cornerstone while Grand Master (1734) with the assistance of St. John's Lodge.
 
Brother Andrew McNair of Philadelphia rang the bell to call the populace on July 8, 1776,
to hear the reading of the Declaration of Independence.
 
The Liberty Bell cracked in 1835 when it tolled the death of Chief Justice John Marshall, Past Grand Master of Virginia.

 

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