William Penn’s Colony of Cave People
Posted by Peggy Robbins on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on William Penn’s Colony of Cave People Of all the stories and accounts relating to the significant role Quakers played in the settlement of the New World, none better illustrates their extraordinary determination and capacity to endure and live for freedom than the way they approached the housing shortage in Philadelphia in the 1680s. They simply resolved the problem by living in caves along the banks of the Delaware and Schuylkill...read more