For America's 250th anniversary, where did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774?

For America's 250th anniversary, the First Continental Congress meeting place in 1774 was Carpenters' Hall.

Delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies gathered there in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Georgia did not send delegates. The meeting responded to the Intolerable Acts, punitive laws Britain imposed after the Boston Tea Party.

Carpenters' Hall was the meeting place of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Its use helped establish Philadelphia as a center of colonial resistance before the Revolutionary War began. The delegates later approved the Continental Association, which organized a boycott of British goods.

A common mix-up is Independence Hall, then called the Pennsylvania State House. The Second Continental Congress met there beginning in 1775, and the Declaration of Independence was adopted there in 1776. The First Continental Congress, however, met at Carpenters' Hall.