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Philadelphia's application to place the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot on the National Register of Historic Places was reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at its meeting on October 6, 2009, along with applications for: the Hamburg Historic District in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, the Hamnett Historic District in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania ...
Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge. / 39.94333°N 75.19167°W / 39.94333; -75.19167. Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge is a wrought iron, two-track, deck truss swing bridge across the Schuylkill River between the University City and Grays Ferry neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] It was built in 1885–86 by the ...
The Schuylkill Expressway (/ ˈskuːkəl / SKOO-kəl), [2] locally known as " the Schuylkill ", is a freeway through southern Montgomery County and Philadelphia. It is the easternmost segment of Interstate 76 (I-76) in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It extends from the Valley Forge interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in King of Prussia ...
US 422. Port Kennedy and Betzwood. 2019. 40°06′27″N 75°25′12″W / 40.10750°N 75.42000°W / 40.10750; -75.42000 (New Betzwood Bridge) Previous bridge replaced with a new, five-span structure, 785 feet (239 m) long with a total width of 146 feet (45 m), to carry six lanes of traffic [2] Sullivan's Bridge.
Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. [1] The section of this neighborhood west of 34th Street is also known as Forgotten Bottom.
Coordinates: 40°20′N 75°44′W. National Park Service map of the heritage area. Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the valley of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania. The heritage area extends from Pottsville to Philadelphia through Schuylkill, Berks, Chester ...
August 6, 1975. The Marine Corps Supply Activity, also known as the Quartermaster's Depot, U.S. Marine Corps, is an historic, American office building and warehouse in the Point Breeze neighborhood of South Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [ 1]
Franklin Benjamin Gowen (February 9, 1836 – December 13, 1889) served as president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, commonly referred to as the Reading Railroad, in the 1870s and 1880s. He is identified with the undercover infiltration and subsequent court prosecutions of Molly Maguires, mine workers, saloonkeepers and low-level ...