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Pennsbury Manor is the reconstructed country estate of William Penn, founder and first colonial governor of Pennsylvania. The main house overlooks the Delaware River at a point about twenty miles north of Philadelphia.
While Penn only resided here for a relatively few years, his ideas established the groundwork for religious tolerance, ethnic diversity and legislators elected by citizens, much of which found its way into the United States Constitution almost a century later.