The United States celebrated its centennial with a grand exhibition in what city that served longest as the nation’s capital before Washington, D.C., permanently assumed the role?

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The First and Second Continental Congresses met there.

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The United States celebrated its centennial with a grand exhibition in what city that served longest as the nation’s capital before Washington, D.C., permanently assumed the role?

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The First and Second Continental Congresses met there.

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$\"\"$ Drew Goins

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