In the aftermath of the excruciating Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, Major General Charles Lee—a rival of George Washington’s—openly questioned Washington’s tactics and conduct in the heat of battle.

Anyone familiar with the Hamilton musical knows what happened next. Lee’s gossip led to Hamilton’s friend and fellow Washington aide de camp, Colonel John Laurens, to challenge Lee to a duel in defense of Washington’s honor. Alexander Hamilton enthusiastically served as Laurens’ “second” in the duel, making official arrangements for the highly ceremonial contest of wills to play out.

The duel took place on Christmas Eve, 1778, outside Philadelphia.

Hamilton later wrote up an account of the affair In it, he identified the approximate location where Laurens would wound Lee as “in a wood situate near the four mile stone on the Point no point road.”

This corresponds, today, into an outlying, industrial area of the City of Philadelphia lying between the Port Richmond and Bridesburg neighborhoods.

The memorably-named “Point No Point” Road—which refers to a spot of land to the northeast where Frankford Creek meets the Delaware River—is the contemporary Richmond Street.

Thanks to period maps indicating the location of the earlier four mile stone, we can zero in on a stretch of Richmond Street between East Vernango and Tioga Streets. In Hamilton’s time, this was quite a distance from the built-up and urban area of Philadelphia.