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Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map).
Kensington District, or The Kensington District of the Northern Liberties, was one of the twenty-nine municipalities that formed Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States prior to the enactment of the Act of Consolidation, 1854, when it became incorporated into the newly expanded City of Philadelphia.
A branch campus of Pennsylvania State University was established in New Kensington in 1958. Since 1966, it has been located in suburban Upper Burrell Township, but retains the name Penn State New Kensington. In 2008, a satellite campus of Westmoreland County Community College opened in downtown New Kensington.
The New Kensington Downtown Historic District, also known as the New Kensington Commercial and Residential Historic District, is a national historic district that is located in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]
The New Kensington Production Works Historic District, also known as the New Kensington Works and Arnold Works, is a national historic district that is located in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]
The Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark.
The Church of the Good Shepherd, Kensington, was an among the few surviving reminders of the mid to late 19th century English immigrant experience and community in Kensington and Philadelphia. Movement has been made to celebrate the colonial experience (i.e. Penn Treaty Park) and preserve the 19th century "new immigrant" experience (i.e. St ...
Palmer Cemetery, originally known as the Kensington Burial Grounds, was established around 1732 in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. [3] The cemetery holds the remains of many of the original families of Kensington such as the Cramp and Shibe Families. [4] There are veterans of every war buried here, beginning with the American ...