The story behind what's hidden beneath the Ben Franklin Statue in SF's Washington Square Park
Skip to main content The story behind what's hidden beneath the Ben Franklin Statue in SF's Washington Square Park FacebookTwitterEmail A statue of Benjamin Franklin is seen in the center of Washington Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 2021. In the pedestal of the statue is a time capsule that was place inside in 1979 and will be opened in 2079.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE It’s unclear what Dr. Henry Cogswell was trying to say about the life of San Franciscans in 1879 when he placed a string of buttons in his time capsule in Washington Square Park. Perhaps it went just as he planned, play...
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