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No images of Franklin Court in the 1700s exist. After Benjamin Franklin's house was demolished in 1812, Orianna Street cut through the property and erased any trace of the Founder's presence. The National Park Service conducted multiple excavations between the 1950s and 1970s, some of the first urban archeology in the United States, discovering thousands of artifacts and the precise location of Franklin's home. There was not enough evidence to reconstruct Franklin's home, so the National Park Service built ghost structures and museums to tell the multifaceted story of Benjamin Franklin's life and legacy.
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