Christ Church Burial Ground Review

Ben Franklin <3

$5 to visit the final resting place of Ben Franklin may be the best $5 I've ever spent in my life, with a close second being a central park soft pretzel.

Big Ben gotta be top 5 most impactful Americans to ever exist, so I felt like a little kid when my girlfriend was like "I think Ben Franklin's grave is just down the street..."

We made the few block walk to this cemetery, and paid the entry fee. People are throwing pennies on his grave which I thought was kind of disrespectful to such a legend so I was ready to throw hands, but I guess it's a nod to his saying "A penny saved is a penny earned," so it's all good.

Do you know how much B-Bug accomplished in his short 84 years? I will list a few things: He owned, printed, and edited the Pennsylvania Gazette, he wrote Poor Richard's Almanac which became one of the most popular Almanacs in America, he created the first fire department in the US, he started what a college that today is UPenn, he established the first hospital, he invented the Franklin stove, lightning rods, a flexible catheter, and bifocals, he was the first to conceive a "United" States, he was the first PostMaster General of the US, and last but not least he and John Adams led the charge to declare our independence.

Okay I'm done ripping all these facts from google but DAMN. He was such a beast. A Titan really. I don't know if there is anyone that has squeezed more accomplishments into one lifetime than Big Ben.

Philly is crazy because you'll just be walking around and it's like "oh yeah that's where the declaration of independence was signed" or "Oh yeah Ben Franklin's grave is right there lol."

There are also 5 other signers of the Declaration of Independence in this one cemetery, which made me geek a bit. Our Founding Fathers were so badass. They really fought a war over a 3% stamp tax and to stand up to big government lmao... Now I'm paying a 24% federal tax and a 6% state tax to an even bigger government. I let Ben down