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1860 June 9: Japanese embassy arrives. Philadelphia Sketch Club organized. Population: 565,529. [18] McGillin's Olde Ale House opened on Drury Street. McGillin's is the oldest continuously operating tavern in Philadelphia and one of the oldest in the country. [40] 1862 Photographic Society of Philadelphia [41] and Union League of Philadelphia ...
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
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One of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia [10] Henry S. Spackman: Washington: 1839 – 1843: Jacob Gratz: Democratic: 1841 – 1842: William Bradford Reed: Whig: 1841 – 1842: Pennsylvania Attorney General from 1838 to 1839. U.S. Minister to China in 1857 [11] William A. Crabb: Whig: 1843 – 1855: Joseph Bailey: Democratic ...
In 1854, when it was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia by the Act of Consolidation, the borough comprised the area bounded on the north by South Street, on the west by Passyunk Avenue from 5th and South to 10th and Reed; the boundary then ran along Reed Street, down 7th, and along Mifflin Street to the river.
Pennsylvania's second congressional district includes all of Northeast Philadelphia and parts of North Philadelphia east of Broad Street, as well as portions of Philadelphia's River Wards. It has been represented by Democrat Brendan Boyle since 2019.
This road followed a Native American path from the Delaware River just north of Old City Philadelphia, through Germantown, about 6 miles northwest of Center City Philadelphia, and on to Pottstown. Settlement in the Germantown area began, at the invitation of William Penn , in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis ...