★ A Founders Road Trip
You can stand where independence was signed, where the army froze and held, and where the war was won. Ten real places, in the order the story unfolds — each with why it matters and directions to go.
Philadelphia, PA · Start where it was signed.
Where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were both debated and signed.
America was born inside this room. There is no more important building in the country.
Boston, MA · One if by land, two if by sea.
"One if by land, two if by sea." The two lanterns hung here April 18, 1775.
The signal that launched Paul Revere's ride and the Revolution itself.
Titusville, NJ · The Christmas-night gamble that saved the Revolution.
Where Washington's army crossed the ice-choked Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, before the surprise attack at Trenton.
The Revolution was losing when this happened. One night on a freezing river turned the whole war around.
Valley Forge, PA · The winter that forged the army.
Where Washington's Continental Army survived the brutal winter of 1777-78 and emerged a real fighting force.
The hardest winter of the Revolution. The country was almost lost here.
Yorktown, VA · Where the world turned upside down.
October 1781. Cornwallis surrendered here and the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down."
The Revolutionary War effectively ended on this field. America was born and won here.
Mount Vernon, VA · The commander-in-chief at home.
George Washington's home on the Potomac. The grounds, the mansion, and his tomb.
See how the father of the country actually lived. Then walk to where he is buried.
Charlottesville, VA · The author of the Declaration, in brick and mortar.
Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home in Virginia. He designed every inch of it himself.
The author of the Declaration of Independence lived, worked, and is buried here.
Hubbardton, VT · The only Revolutionary battle fought on Vermont soil.
The only Revolutionary War battle fought entirely within Vermont, part of the 1777 Saratoga campaign.
A quiet field most Americans have never heard of, that helped set up one of the war's biggest turning points.
Newport, RI · Washington’s promise of religious liberty, still standing.
The oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States, in Newport — where George Washington wrote his famous 1790 letter promising religious liberty "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
One of the clearest, earliest statements of American religious freedom, from Washington himself.
New Castle, DE · Where Delaware made the Constitution real first.
A National Park Service unit created specifically to preserve sites tied to Delaware's founding-era role.
A park that exists purely to tell one state's founding story — worth seeing why it earned that name.
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