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Birch's Views of Philadelphia was an 1800 book of prints drawn and engraved by William Russell Birch (1755–1834) and his son Thomas Birch (1779–1851). The 27 illustrations of the city are extraordinarily valuable to historians because they document Philadelphia architecture and street-life at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of Philadelphia. Though there is no official definition of its boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Line Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest and the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line to the south.
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Among the 80-acre (320,000 m 2) district's 155 contributing properties are: Comawaben, aka Charles Currie House, 50 West Walnut Lane, built 1899 (Mantle Fielding, architect) Conyers Button House, 143 W. Walnut Lane, c. 1875; Kimball House, 144 West Walnut Lane, built 1860; Lister Townsend House, 6015 Wayne Ave., built 1887
South Street marks the 600 South block (from Market Street) in the city's gridiron street system. In West Philadelphia, the 600 South is delineated between 45th and 63rd Streets by Cedar Avenue, the name being a relic of the original name for South Street (Cedar Street) in the original plan for Philadelphia as drafted by William Penn.
Long before the city was laid out or settled, Philadelphia's founder, William Penn, had planned that markets would be held regularly on the 100-foot (30 m) wide High Street. The city's first market stalls were situated in the center of the thoroughfare starting at Front Street and proceeding west eventually to 8th Street.
Philadelphia (/ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i. ə / ⓘ fill-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Pennsport: Locally referred to as "Two Street", Penn's Port is a predominantly Irish-American Catholic neighborhood. Point Breeze, a largely African-American neighborhood. Queen Village: North to Lombard Street, south to Washington Ave., east to the Delaware River, west to 6th Street. The neighborhood contains a large Jewish-American population.