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39°58′28″N 75°09′33″W / 39.9744°N 75.1592°W / 39.9744; -75.1592 (Philadelphia School of Design for Women) Cabot. Edwin Forrest House, first home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, founded in 1848 by Sarah Peter, the only women's art and design college in the nation. 47. Edgar Allan Poe House.
81000556 [1] Added to NRHP. September 14, 1981. Franklin Square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn when he laid out the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1682. It is located in the Center City area, between North 6th and 7th streets, and between Race Street and the Vine Street Expressway (I-676).
Penn's Landing is a waterfront area of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, situated along the Delaware River. Its name commemorates the landing of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, in 1682. The actual landing site is farther south, in Chester. The city of Philadelphia purchased the right to use the name.
www.phillyseaport.org. The Independence Seaport Museum (formerly the Philadelphia Maritime Museum) was founded in 1961 and is located in the Penn's Landing complex along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The collections at the Independence Seaport Museum document maritime history and culture along the Delaware River.
A 1777 Hessian map showing the campaign against Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer. Mingo Creek can be seen on the upper left above Province Island. Swedish settlers settled in the area of Mingo Creek in what would become New Sweden in 1638. Historically, Mingo Creek was a tidal estuary among the marshlands of Philadelphia with a system of numerous ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Philadelphia: Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the second-largest city on the East Coast of the United States after New York City, and the fifth-most-populous city in the United States. [1]
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Houston-Sauveur House (1885), 8205 Seminole Avenue. The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a historic area covering all the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1985.