The Museum Of The American Revolution Artifacts Await Their New Home

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Wed, 07/11/2012 - 7:41am

PHILADELPHIA -- A nondescript building on a quiet street somewhere outside Philadelphia holds a secret stash of treasures that have been waiting patiently for more than a century for a permanent place to call home.Carefully stacked on shelves, hanging on walls and spread out on tables in a large climate-controlled room are thousands of artifacts from the Revolutionary War.

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