Elizabeth, What a wonderful find. Ann On 3/27/06, Elizabeth Cunningham <drybones@netreach.net> wrote: > > I have just gotten hold of an 1892 Philadelphia "Driving map" and I am > having a good time looking at it. > > Top of the map stops at a line east-west through Bustleton and also cuts > off the top of Chestnut Hill. South the line goes through the Navy > Yard. Map includes large parts of Burlington, Camden, and Delaware > Counties. > > Frankford Avenue was still the Bristol Turnpike for a good deal of its > length, and Roosevelt Boulevard seems to follow a good chunk of the > Smithfield Turnpike. Mount Moriah Cemetery is on it, but Fair Hill is > not (Germantown and Cambria) although it was an active Quaker Burial > Ground at the time. The Forest Home on Bristol Pike is on it (the > elementary school I went to was later built on the site), House of > Correction is there, but Holmesburg Prison is not, and I would have > thought it would be. The Poor House that existed where Lincoln High now > is was called the "Oxford and Lower Dublin Poor House" (so the same > survived in some forms after city-county consolidation). > > City Hall (which I thought had been built by then) is called "Municipal > Buildings", and Independence Hall is called "State House." > > A fascinating document. > > Elizabeth C > > > ==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== > FREE: Upload your GEDCOM to WorldConnect > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > -- Ann Brown " Cookie"
Ann..why don't you scan it and post it ....Joe brady On 3/27/06, Ann Brown <cookiebrown11@gmail.com> wrote: > > Elizabeth, What a wonderful find. Ann > > On 3/27/06, Elizabeth Cunningham <drybones@netreach.net> wrote: > > > > I have just gotten hold of an 1892 Philadelphia "Driving map" and I am > > having a good time looking at it. > > > > Top of the map stops at a line east-west through Bustleton and also cuts > > off the top of Chestnut Hill. South the line goes through the Navy > > Yard. Map includes large parts of Burlington, Camden, and Delaware > > Counties. > > > > Frankford Avenue was still the Bristol Turnpike for a good deal of its > > length, and Roosevelt Boulevard seems to follow a good chunk of the > > Smithfield Turnpike. Mount Moriah Cemetery is on it, but Fair Hill is > > not (Germantown and Cambria) although it was an active Quaker Burial > > Ground at the time. The Forest Home on Bristol Pike is on it (the > > elementary school I went to was later built on the site), House of > > Correction is there, but Holmesburg Prison is not, and I would have > > thought it would be. The Poor House that existed where Lincoln High now > > is was called the "Oxford and Lower Dublin Poor House" (so the same > > survived in some forms after city-county consolidation). > > > > City Hall (which I thought had been built by then) is called "Municipal > > Buildings", and Independence Hall is called "State House." > > > > A fascinating document. > > > > Elizabeth C > > > > > > ==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== > > FREE: Upload your GEDCOM to WorldConnect > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > > -- > Ann Brown " Cookie" > > > ==== PAPHILAD Mailing List ==== > FREE: Search the SSDI [Social Security Death Index] > http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > -- Joe Brady researching..Brady,Walsh,Ryan,McDevitt, Pierse, O'Connor, Iaquinto, D'Alfonso, Ricci, Siravo, Carlino, and more