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The River Wards is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States located along the Delaware River to the northeast of Center City Philadelphia. 'River Wards' is the commonly used name for an area including several neighborhoods, such as Fishtown , Kensington , Port Richmond and Olde Richmond .
Lower North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia that is immediately north of Center City and below Upper North Philadelphia and can be described as a section of Philadelphia that was designated as a "Model City" target, in hopes of overcoming poverty and blight through a federal funding program since 1966. Bounded by Spring Garden Street ...
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
The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.
City of Philadelphia. (online database of maps and photos, searchable by time period) "Philadelphia", American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection, USA – via University of Wisconsin, c. 1777–1943; Items related to Philadelphia, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
There are more than 600 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Philadelphia, including 67 National Historic Landmarks. South Philadelphia includes 63 of these properties and districts, including 2 National Historic Landmarks; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. One site is split between South ...
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.