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15000734. Added to NRHP. January 6, 2016. Bethel Burial Ground is a historic African American cemetery located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beneath part of the surface of Weccacoe Playground, which is bounded by Queen, S. Lawrence, Catherine, and S. Liethgow Streets. The burial ground was about 100 feet square and is located below the ...
As of the 2010 Census, there are 168,782 people in 78,440 housing units. The population density is 16,771 people per square mile. 46.6% of the population is male, and 53.4% is female. The South Philadelphia area comprises the zip codes of 19145, 19146, 19147 and 19148.
Joseph William Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. [ 1 ] His story was made into the 1993 film Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack, [ 2 ] as well as a 2002 book ...
Jewish traders have operated in southeastern Pennsylvania since at least the 1650s. [ 1 ] The first Jewish resident of the city on record was Jonas Aaron whose name appears in 1703 in the American Historical Register. Several Jewish families had immigrated to Philadelphia by 1734, as recorded by German traveler von Beck who listed them among ...
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historic research facility headquartered on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. It is a repository for millions of historic items ranging across rare books, scholarly monographs, family chronicles, maps, press reports and varied ephemera, reaching back almost 300 years, and accessible on the ...
The Philadelphia Tribune. Modern image of the Philadelphia Tribune building at 520 South 16th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. [ 2 ] The paper began in 1884 when Christopher J. Perry published its first copy.
Lois Fernandez worked with folklorist Debora Kodish to publish a memoir of her early life in South Philadelphia in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s: Recollections (part one) (2016). [ 9 ] [ 17 ] It was released in 2016 with signings at the Mayor's reception room in Philadelphia City Hall , and the African American Museum in Philadelphia .
September 29, 2024 at 9:56 PM. PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating after they say a woman was found unresponsive on a patio in South Philadelphia. On Sunday at around 6:32 p.m ...