I had been worried that August would be another 90+°F for the entire month, so I was delighted when the weather broke and we had some pleasant days.

On my way over to Nuts to You (a place to buy all kinds of nutty products), I decided to take a slight detour and stroll around tree-lined Washington Square.

William Penn famously had Philadelphia laid out in a grid pattern (though he couldn’t, of course, predict the 20th century’s need for much wider streets), and he left room for four squares, which he did have the foresight to name after famous folks from his future. Or perhaps the names were added later.

In any case we now have Rittenhouse, Logan, Franklin, and Washington Squares.

During the Revolutionary War the square that is now named after the Father of Our Country was used as a mass burial ground for an unknown number of unknown soldiers who died of disease or wounds during that war.

In 1954 it was decided to build a memorial to those soldiers, and so Philadelphia has its own tomb of an unknown soldier which is known as the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier.