Elfreth's Alley Free Cellphone Tours
Thursday, 21 May 2009 18:44

Elfreth's Alley Free Cellphone Tours

Explore three hundred years of history with the Elfreth's Alley's cell phone tour. Because Elfreth's Alley tells a variety of stories, we offer several themed tours:
  • Walk in the footsteps of Philadelphia's "best craftsmen," eighteenth-century cabinetmaker Daniel Trotter, in "Elfreth's Alley in the Eighteenth-Century: A Community of Artisans."
  • Hear about Elfreth's Alley's famed mantuamakers in "Women and Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," a women's history tour that discusses the everyday lives of Alley residents.
  • Learn about the experiences of the nineteenth-century Irish, German, and Eastern European immigrants who settled along the Alley and worked in the neighborhood's factories in "Elfreth's Alley in the Nineteenth Century: A Community of Immigrants."
  • Find out why Elfreth's Alley is Philadelphia's only intact eighteenth-century streetscape with "The Preservation of Elfreth's Alley."
  • While admiring the Alley's houses, listen to "The Architecture of Elfreth's Alley" and identify the changes that occurred along Elfreth's Alley from the 1720s through the 1830s.
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