This two-hour walking tour will follow Germantown Avenue along the northern edge of the Germantown Colonial Historic District to highlight the various religious and intellectual groups who were free to practice in early eighteenth-century Germantown, including Quakers, Mennonites, Moravians, Reformed Lutherans, and natural scientists. This tour will also focus on Germantown, where many early battles for American freedom were fought. Not only did this happen at the Battle of Germantown, but also a decade prior, when Benjamin Franklin's militia confronted vigilantes in Germantown to protect the religious freedom and lives of Lenape Moravian converts. Germantown was a site of early abolitionism and an early version of the Underground Railroad, as well as a hub for early American free thinkers and scientists who observed and cataloged the natural order. The tour will be led by Kime Lawson, professor at Thomas Jefferson University. Cost is $20 per person. Attendance limited to 20 people.