William Penn Landing Site | |
 William Penn Landing Site Monument, May 2010 | |
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| Location | Penn and Front Sts., Chester, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°50′36″N 75°21′41″W / 39.84333°N 75.36139°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1882 |
| Architect | Struthers, John |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000703[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 11, 1971 |
| Designated PHMC | October 13, 1947[2] |
The monument at the William Penn Landing Site in Chester, Pennsylvania marks the spot of the first landing of William Penn on the territory of Pennsylvania, on October 28 or 29, 1682 (O.S.). Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, landed in the only town in the province, then known as Upland.
The monument at the site was designed by John Struthers, erected on November 8 and dedicated November 9, 1882 (N.S.)[3][4] The landing site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-07. Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (December 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: William Penn's Landing" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-06.
- ^ Despite appearances, the dates are exactly 200 years apart because of the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Penn's fellow passenger on the ship Welcome, Evan Oliver, used Quaker vocabulary to describe the landing date as "ye 28th of ye 8th month, '82"