Can you visit Benjamin Franklin’s grave?

The Burial Ground is open to the public for a small fee, weather permitting; about 100,000 tourists visit each year. When the Burial Ground is closed, one can still view Benjamin Franklin’s gravesite from the sidewalk at the corner of 5th and Arch through a set of iron rails.

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Why do they throw pennies on Ben Franklin’s grave?

Visitors have been able to see Franklin’s grave from Arch Street since 1858, when the church opened the burial ground’s brick wall, and every year “hundreds of thousands of visitors toss pennies at the grave for good luck” as a nod to Franklin’s adage, “a penny saved in a penny earned,” according to the Christ Church …