Death and Legacy
Peters died at home in 1828 and is buried in St. Peter's Churchyard Cemetery in Philadelphia.
- His home, known as "Belmont Mansion", still stands and is open as a museum. It is located at 2000 Belmont Mansion Drive in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, which was established around it.
Read more about this topic: Richard Peters (Continental Congress)
Famous quotes containing the words death and, death and/or legacy:
“They are girls. Green girls.
Death and life is their daily work.
Death seams up and down the leaf.
I call the leaves my death girls.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 24:16.
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