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At the time, Hog Island was the largest shipyard in the world, with 50 slipways. In 1918, a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) rail line was built to connect Hog Island with Philadelphia: the 60th Street Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [1] The first ship, named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site, was christened August 5, 1918, by Edith Bolling ...
US 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard) northbound past the southern terminus of PA 532 (Welsh Road) in Northeast Philadelphia. The road crosses Bustleton Avenue and US 13 splits from US 1 by heading southeast on the one-way pair of Robbins Street northbound and Levick Street southbound, while US 1 continues northeast along Roosevelt Boulevard past urban ...
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, commonly known as PhilaPort, and referred to as The Port of Philadelphia, is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania charged with the management, maintenance, marketing, and promotion of port facilities along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, as well as strategic planning throughout the port district.
The SS City of Flint was a cargo ship of a type known colloquially as a Hog Islander, due to it being built at the Hog Island Shipyard, Philadelphia by American International Shipbuilding for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), Emergency Fleet Corporation.
The area was once part of the plantation of James Logan, adviser to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. [1] Modern transportation formed the community: the Broad Street subway, which opened in 1928, and a thriving network of streetcar and bus routes, allowed development of what was then considered one of the earliest suburban communities in Philadelphia, though the area is considered urban ...
The township contained no other settlements of any size except Maylandville. It was traversed principally by the Darby Road and the road to Lazaretto. Its greatest length, 5 miles (8.0 km); greatest breadth, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km); area, 6,800 acres (28 km 2). This was the oldest settled portion of the county of Philadelphia.
Parkwood is a neighborhood located in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The neighborhood's boundaries include the Byberry East Industrial Park to the north and northwest, Poquessing Creek to the east, Knights Road to the southeast and Woodhaven Road to the southwest.
Interior view of Franklin Mills, then known as Philadelphia Mills, 2016 Franklin Mall is designed in the shape of a thunderbolt in commemoration of Benjamin Franklin 's kite-and-key experiment. The mall's former logo, when it was called Franklin Mills, included a red kite with a lightning bolt on the right side and the string ending on the ...