RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 2/2
    1. looking for a street
    2. Patricia Sullivan
    3. can anyone tell me where 56th st and rabbit lane were located in 1920? thanks

    01/09/2006 08:54:51
    1. RE: [PAPHL] looking for a street
    2. Larry B.
    3. From "AMERICA'S MOST HISTORIc HIGHWAY", found at... http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:1yMAXKDC-tcJ:www.libraries.psu.edu/do/digitalbookshelf/28780861/28780861_part_15.pdf+%22rabbit+lane%22+philadelphia&hl=en Just beyond the hospital grounds [Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane], until about thirty years ago, ran Rabbit lane, a diagonal road which originally crossed Market street near Fiftieth, but later had to be entered from Fifty-second and Walnut streets. This road ran in a southwestern direction down to Baltimore avenue, and near the latter road, then the Chadd's Ford turnpike, was an old farm house which had been obtained by a party of well-known horsemen in Philadelphia, such as Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson, Wayne MacVeagh, A. J. Cassatt, Edward Rogers and Hartman Kuhn. These organized themselves into a driving club called the Rabbit, after the farm on Rabbit lane. From 1867 until 1872 the house on Rabbit lane was occupied by the club, but later the head- quarters were removed to Hay lane, and not so many years ago to a spot near Christ Church Hospital, just outside the bounds of the West Park. ----Original Message Follows---- can anyone tell me where 56th st and rabbit lane were located in 1920? thanks

    01/09/2006 07:47:50