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  2. List of Philadelphia placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Market Street was previously known as High Street, part of William Penn's original names for the city of Philadelphia. Manayunk. The neighborhood's name comes from the word "manaiung," place where we go to drink, in the language of the Lenape [4] Martin Luther King Jr. Drive [5]

  3. List of Philadelphia neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    Washington Square West: north to Market St., south to South St., east to 7th St, west to Broad St. The name derives simply from the fact that this area extends west of Washington Square. Recently, this name is used in conjunction with a new name for the neighborhood - Midtown Village. The Gayborhood is entirely within this area.

  4. Elfreth's Alley - Wikipedia

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    Elfreth's Alley is a historic street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dating to 1703. The street has 32 houses, built between 1703 and 1836. The Elfreth's Alley Museum is located at #124 and 126. The alley, a National Historic Landmark, runs from North Front to North 2nd streets, paralleling Arch and Quarry streets.

  5. Category:Streets in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Route 63. Pennsylvania Route 73. Pennsylvania Route 232. Pennsylvania Route 291. Pennsylvania Route 532. Pennsylvania Route 611. Penrose Avenue. Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. Powelton Avenue.

  6. South Street (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    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. South ...

  7. Race Street (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    Race Street is a major east–west street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that runs parallel to Cherry Street. It was one of William Penn 's original gridded streets from the 1680s, although named Sassafras Street then. [1] Race and Arch streets are listed by their original names, "Sassafras" and "Mulberry," on the map in Birch's Views of ...

  8. Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is the nation's sixth-most populous city, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census and is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley (or Philadelphia metropolitan area), the nation's seventh-largest and one of the world's largest metropolitan regions consisting of ...

  9. Olney, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Olney ( / ˈɒlni / or locally / ˈɒləni /) is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. It is roughly bounded by Roosevelt Boulevard to the south, Tacony Creek to the east, Godfrey Avenue to the north, and the railroad right-of-way west of 7th Street to the west. Although Olney is primarily a quiet residential ...