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The Inter-Academic League (officially known as the Inter-Academic Association of Philadelphia and Vicinity, commonly known as the Inter-Ac) is an inter-scholastic athletic conference. This high school sports league consists of selective private schools in the Philadelphia area.
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
Philadelphia Warriors (1926–1928 in the American Basketball League), Philadelphia Hebrews (1933–1937), Atlantic City Tides (1949) [2] Arena: Broadwood Hotel (after 1933) Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Team colors: Red, white, blue: General manager: Eddie Gottlieb: Head coach: Eddie Gottlieb (1917–1927) Harry Litwack: Championships ...
The Central League started on May 28, 1966 as a spin-off from the Suburban League when nine schools, most of them along the Main Line, announced they were leaving the Suburban League to start the Central League, to begin play in the 1967 academic year. The schools that founded the league were Conestoga, Harriton, Haverford, Lower Merion, Marple ...
The Marine Barracks is an historic, American barracks that is located at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
Philadelphia Phillies – League Alliance (1882) Philadelphia Phillies – NL (1883–1886) Location: Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Avenue) (south, third base); 25th Street (west, left field); Montgomery Street (north, center field); Ridge Avenue a.k.a. Ridge Pike (northeast, right field); 24th Street (east, first base) – a few blocks ...
As Indians started to get more settled in Philadelphia, they quickly started to move from the central parts of the city to outlying neighborhoods and suburbs such as Northeast Philadelphia, [6] Montgomery County, and Bucks County, with the small suburb of Millbourne becoming the first majority-Indian town in the United States by 2000. [7]
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.