Philadelphia has several of Pennsylvania’s 595 historical markers highlighting the region’s lesser-known figures and events, writes Sandy Smith for Philadelphia Magazine.

One of the markers commemorates the house that once stood at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the first protest against slavery was held by a group of German Quakers in 1688.

In 1840, John Wagner brewed the first lager beer in America at 905 North American Street in Northern Liberties. The marker was erected in 2001.

Milton Hershey opened his first confectionery shop at 935 Spring Garden Street in West Poplar in 1876, when just 18 years old.

Meanwhile, William Penn Charter School, the first public school in Pennsylvania and the oldest Friends school in the world, opened at 3000 West School House Lane in East Falls in 1689.

The oldest church in Philadelphia is Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church, at Water Street in Queen Village was founded by Swedish settlers in 1677.

The northwest corner of Chestnut and Juniper streets is where Joseph Saxton of the U.S. Mint took the oldest surviving daguerreotype in the country in 1839 using a crude box camera.

A historic marker at 615 St. Georges Road in West Mount Airy recognizes Violet Oakley, an artist who painted murals for the House and Senate chambers in the Pennsylvania State Capitol.

Read more about the state’s many local historical markers in Philadelphia Magazine.

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