• Marie Antoinette Overlook

    November 27, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

    Who would've thought? Turns out that some French nobility fleeing the French Revolution and slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) settled here in a small town called French Azilium (Asylum) with help from several influential Philadelphians, including Stephen Girard, Robert Morris and John Nicholson. According to legend, Marie Antoinette and her two surviving children were to settle here had they been able to escape.
    The overlook is above the settlement area (none of the buildings survived and its all pretty much fields & farmland)
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