\n\t\t\t\t\t\tToday is Charter Day all across the state.It’s the day we commemorate the 345th birthday of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.The original charter for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania was signed by King Charles II in March 1681, in recognition of the loyalty of William Penn\u2019s deceased father to the English monarchy, and conveyed the tract of land that is now Pennsylvania to William Penn. More than a dozen historic sites and museums on the Pennsylvania Trails of History are offering free admission.Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds FordCornwall Iron Furnace, CornwallDrake Well Museum, TitusvilleEckley Miner’s Village, WeatherlyEphrata Cloister, EphrataErie Maritime, ErieLandis Valley Village and Farm Museum, LancasterPennsbury Manor, MorrisvillePennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, ScrantonPennsylvania Lumber Museum, UlyssesPennsylvania State Archives, HarrisburgRailroad Museum of Pennsylvania, LancasterState Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Today is Charter Day all across the state.<\/p>\n
It’s the day we commemorate the 345th birthday of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The original charter for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania was signed by King Charles II in March 1681, in recognition of the loyalty of William Penn\u2019s deceased father to the English monarchy, and conveyed the tract of land that is now Pennsylvania to William Penn. <\/p>\n
More than a dozen historic sites and museums on the Pennsylvania Trails of History are offering free admission.<\/p>\n
Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford<\/p>\n
Cornwall Iron Furnace, Cornwall<\/p>\n
Drake Well Museum, Titusville<\/p>\n
Eckley Miner’s Village, Weatherly<\/p>\n
Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata<\/p>\n
Erie Maritime, Erie<\/p>\n
Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, Lancaster<\/p>\n
Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Ulysses<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg<\/p>\n
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Lancaster<\/p>\n
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Charter Day all across the state.It’s the day we commemorate the 345th birthday of the commonwealth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60802,61463,61461,37787,61460,2479,61465,4329,61464,61467,8429,41084,61469,61468,2727,28,30,29,61459,61462,45344,61466,36863],"class_list":{"0":"post-132809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-admission","9":"tag-brandywine-battlefield-park","10":"tag-chadds-fordcornwall-iron-furnace","11":"tag-charter","12":"tag-charter-day","13":"tag-commonwealth","14":"tag-cornwalldrake","15":"tag-day","16":"tag-ephrataerie-maritime","17":"tag-erielandis-valley-village","18":"tag-free","19":"tag-historic","20":"tag-lancasterpennsbury-manor","21":"tag-morrisvillepennsylvania-anthracite-heritage-museum","22":"tag-museum","23":"tag-pennsylvania","24":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","25":"tag-pennsylvania-news","26":"tag-sites","27":"tag-titusvilleeckley-miner","28":"tag-village","29":"tag-weatherlyephrata-cloister","30":"tag-william-penn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}