Eight other locales that were ONCE the SEATS of AMERICAN POWER, 8 Forgotten Capitals of the United States, INTERESTING HISTORY I always liked history but ever since Q I have been researching so much of OUR AMERICAN HISTORY and there is such fascinating information out there. Q has made me LOVE history and POLITICS.  https://www.history.com/news/8-forgotten-capitals-of-the-united-states  THE REST OF THE STORY IS ON THIS LINK. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania After the Continental Congress met inside Philadelphia’s Carpenter’s Hall in 1774, it reassembled the following spring inside the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall), where it adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Philadelphia had various stints as the home of the Continental Congress and its successor under the Articles of Confederation, which was enacted in 1781. As stipulated by the Residence Act, Philadelphia served as the TEMPORARY CAPITAL of the United States of America between 1790 and 1800 while Washington, D.C., WAS BEING BUILT.  Lancaster, Pennsylvania    I THINK THIS IS KIND OF COOL. AMISH COUNTRY  HEART OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FOR 1 DAY!  Reminds me of the RUN AWAY SENATORS that fled to IDAHO. The present-day heart of Amish country was once the HEART of the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT—if only for a day. In the late summer of 1777, the Redcoats again advanced on Philadelphia, and after Washington’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, the Continental Congress evacuated the city. DELEGATES FLED 65 MILES to the west and on September 27, 1777, met inside Lancaster’s county courthouse. Faced with the difficulty of finding suitable lodging and continued concerns about their safety, the delegates’ official business consisted mainly of deciding how quickly they could leave Lancaster. After the legislative equivalent of a cup of coffee, the Continental Congress adjourned its one-day session inside the courthouse, which was destroyed by a fire in the 1780s, and continued to move west.  York, Pennsylvania Finding a more secure position 25 miles west of Lancaster behind the Susquehanna River, the Continental Congress convened inside the York County Court House on September 30, 1777. During the government’s nine-month stay in the central Pennsylvania hamlet, it approved the Articles of Confederation, which took effect after its 1781 ratification by the states, and signed an alliance treaty with France. After receiving word in June 1778 that the British had EVACUATED Philadelphia, the Continental Congress returned to the city and found Independence Hall left “in a MOST FILTHY and SORDID situation” according to New Hampshire delegate Josiah Bartlett. New York City In January 1785, the Congress of Confederation convened in New York’s old City Hall on Wall Street, and for more than five years Gotham served as the seat of American power. After the ratification of the United States Constitution, delegates met briefly at Fraunces TAVERN as the old City Hall was remodeled to become the first capitol building for the new national government. On the second-floor balcony of the newly renamed Federal Hall, WASHINGTON TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789. A statue of Washington overlooking Wall Street now stands outside a reconstruction of Federal Hall.