The J. G. Brill Company in Kingsessing and Baldwin Locomotive, which relocated from Spring Garden to adjacent Delaware County, both employed thousands of local residents.Immigrant and native-born workers followed the opportunity for industrial employment. This area had row homes and very few semi attached.Copyright © 2020 Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia Samuel L. Paley Library, Temple University,1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia. Railroad industrialist Andrew McCalla Eastwick (1811-1879) purchased the house and garden as a private park for his own country house, designed by Samuel Sloan. Use of Island Avenue as a main thoroughfare originates with the Lenape tribe Indigenous to this area. Thus, the struggles of Southwest Philadelphians to achieve livable family neighborhoods continued in the early twenty-first century.Krulikowski, Anne. Speaking of the 59th St. area, you refer to Kingsessing with little discussion of Chester Ave north to Baltimore Ave.
In 1950, the Eastwick Urban Renewal Project began when much of Ward 40, about 3,000 acres, was declared “blighted.” Plans to reduce residential and farm use included creating space for an East Coast highway (I-95, which crosses the Schuylkill over the two-tiered Girard Point Bridge) and a hub of transportation and light industry centered on an enlarged international airport. The southernmost portion was at one time crisscrossed by a network of creeks. The city of Philadelphia, which had been under Republican control in the 1940s, shifted in the 1950s toward reform Democrats, whose policies included community redevelopment.
Lack of modern sewage services and Depression-era shanties were featured in official city publications and city newspapers. My 89 year old mother still lives in the area and I worry about her everyday living there. I can remember my dad saying that down at the end of the block 55th street and beyond (looking towards Cobbs Creek ) that it was all forest down to Cobbs Creek when they bought the house. Very convenient.
It’s two different neighborhoods, each feeling superior to the other, with some (healthy?) Every day in the summer I would watch the mixoligists stop at Marty Mannions saloon at 54th and grays for a shot and a beer and head down the street to the factory. Mayor Wilson Goode declared a state of emergency. It was a great neighborhood and I do not recall any problems then with the black kids who rode the same Eastwick trolley as I did. "Residents enjoyed the ability to have a rural lifestyle within city limits; nearby creeks provided recreation in the form of swimming, bathing, and fishing. But periodic flooding has increased since much of the vicinity was rezoned for industrial use. Joseph Fels built the Fels Naptha (laundry soap) factory on the site of the old Passmore mill. Her mother died when she was seven in 1911. Why hasn’t the City of Philadelphia done something to rehab this area instead of letting it die?It was a wonderful place to grow up and now when I visit I could just cry.Jennie Harley ( mother of the year) mentioned in this article was my great grandmother.
Eastwick Blight Recertification. Mostly middle Eurpean folks. Mud, Hog, Carpenter’s, Minquas (Mingo), Province (later State), and Boon’s Islands were some of the largest of the Kingsessing, from a Delaware Indian word most frequently translated as “a place where there is a bog meadow,” became the center of Swedish occupation in 1643 when Governor Johann Printz (1592-1663) moved the Swedish headquarters to big Tinicum Island. Much of the original housing built before the 1950s lacked sewer service and other urban conveniences.
In the Meadows, those were good — real good — until urban renewal. Thank you.My great great grandfather Robert Callaghan and brother George founded the Callaghan textile Mill in SW Philadelphia in the 1860s. After a Revolutionary War bombardment, it became known as the “Cannonball House.” This painting is by Thomas H. Wilkinson, who visited Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century. Attended Bartram High School and in time I loved the place.
Much of the original housing built before the 1950s lacked sewer service and other urban conveniences. rivalry between them.
My 6 sisters and I all graduated from John Bartram High School. We could get the trolley at 75th and Dicks at Island Rd and go to any part of the city in a short time. Street names such as Botanic, Bartram, Dick’s, Lyon’s, and Buist commemorate this important local economy. In 1696, the King’s Highway (later Darby Road) was laid out from Gray’s Ferry (the Lower Ferry), becoming the main artery from Philadelphia to Baltimore and the southern colonies.
Just after the Civil War, the Angora Woolen Mill and a small village were established just below Baltimore Pike.Perhaps Kingsessing is most important in American history for its famous garden nurseries and seed farms, which also benefited from the combination of a rural landscape and a railroad.