This advertisement is on the front page of the American Centinel and Mercantile Advertiser, dated June 17th 1817. At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, a variety of states had to resort to lotteries to raise finances for several public projects. For several years these lotteries were exceedingly successful and added to the nation's swift growth. The lotteries were used for such varied projects as the Pennsylvania Schuylkill, Susquehanna Canal, and Harvard. Several American churches raised building finances through state official private lotteries. These lotteries eventually became a source of fiscal mismanagement and scandal.
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I had no idea that the lottery has been around that long!!!! How interesting!
Wow..I didn't know the lottery has been around since 1817..
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