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English: This scarce hand colored map is a lithographic plan or map of Philadelphia dating to 1846 by the legendary American Mapmaker S.A. Mitchell, the elder. Depicts the entire city in stupendous detail with even important buildings, streets, piers, and canals drawn in.
700-704 S. Front Street in 2013. South Front Street Historic District is a national historic district located in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses seven contributing buildings, including the Nathaniel Irish House, Widow Maloby's Tavern, and Capt. Thomas Moore House, which are individually listed on the ...
The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape native Indians. In the purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed that a 1686 treaty with the Lenape ceded an area of 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km 2) in ...
Chestnut Hill Historic District (Philadelphia) Houston-Sauveur House (1885), 8205 Seminole Avenue. / 40.07167°N 75.21306°W / 40.07167; -75.21306. The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area covering all the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2]
October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. January 12, 1965. Philosophical Hall is a historic building at 104 S. 5th Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Located near Independence Hall, the building has, for over 200 years, been the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in ...
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Philadelphia has 41 ZIP -codes, which are often used for neighborhood analysis. [ 1] Historically, many neighborhoods were defined by incorporated townships (Blockley, Roxborough), districts (Belmont, Kensington, Moyamensing, Richmond) or boroughs (Bridesburg, Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk) before being incorporated into the city with the Act ...
Brewerytown is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. An unofficial region, Brewerytown runs approximately between the Schuylkill River 's eastern bank and 25th Street, bounded by Montgomery Avenue to the north and Parrish Street to the south. Brewerytown derived its name from the numerous ...