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New Market, as it was originally known, and later also known as Head House (or Headhouse) Market and Second Street Market, is an historic street market which is located on South 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard streets in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a history dating to 1745, it is one of the oldest ...
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 ...
Society Hill is named after the 17th-century Free Society of Traders, which had its offices at Front Street on the hill above Dock Creek. [14] The Free Society of Traders was a company of elite merchants, landowners, and personal associates of William Penn who were granted special concessions in order to direct the economy of the young colony.
The Lombard Street riot was a three-day race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1842. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The riot was the last in a 13-year period marked by frequent racial attacks in the city. [ 3 ] [ page needed ] [ 4 ] It started on Lombard Street, between Fifth and Eighth streets.
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Building. October 6, 2008 : Center City 19 South 22nd St. Rittenhouse Square West ... S. 2nd St., between Pine & Lombard Sts.
South 2nd Street, between Pine and Lombard Streets 39°56′35″N 75°08′43″W / 39.9431°N 75.1453°W / 39.9431; -75.1453 ( Ne Society Hill
1032 Lombard St., Philadelphia: City African American, Baseball, Education, Science & Medicine, Sports & Recreation, Underground Railroad Washington Square West James Forten (1766-1842) April 24, 1990: 336 Lombard St., Philadelphia
Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church (also known as Big Wesley) is an historic church, which is located at 1500 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it also appears in the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and the Pennsylvania State Historic Resource survey.