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Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, highlighting Germantown Borough prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854. Germantown (German: Deutschstadt) is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854. The area, which ...
Overpass carrying PA 611 / North Broad Street and Broad Street Line over Roosevelt Expressway. The Roosevelt Boulevard Extension, also known as the Roosevelt Expressway, begins at Interstate 76 (Schuylkill Expressway) in Fairmount Park adjacent to the Philadelphia city line, as an expressway, also known as the Roosevelt Boulevard Expressway U.S. Route 1.
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened and formed the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
Overpass carrying PA 611 (North Broad Street) and SEPTA's Broad Street Line over US 1 (Roosevelt Expressway) in North Philadelphia. US 1 splits from I-76 by heading northeast on the Roosevelt Expressway, a six-lane freeway.
Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent, a 1752 map depicting the State House as the appeared and the original bell tower, which had not yet added its clock. By the spring of 1729, there were proposals to build a state house in Philadelphia, and 2,000 pounds sterling were committed to the project.
New Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. [6] The county's largest city, New Philadelphia lies along the Tuscarawas River. The population was 17,677 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city in the New Philadelphia–Dover micropolitan area, approximately 70 miles (110 km) south of Cleveland.
The Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building in Philadelphia. Located at 1 North Broad Street, directly across from Philadelphia City Hall, it serves as the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons. The Temple features the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, and receives thousands of visitors every ...