Mostly textile mills. Philadelphia was the textile capital of the nation until after WWII when the government policies and unions destroyed America's industrial base. Gene Stackhouse A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. Not Bad >From: EileenCrook@aol.com >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Mills - Twenty-third and Filbert >Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:41:14 EDT > >Dear readers > >May I once again thank all those very kind people who replied to my >question >regarding 'meanings of occupations'. I have another question now if I may >- >I appreciate this may be impossible to answer but I just have to ask - the >fact that the person involved worked with leather may be of help or >perhaps he >just worked as a labourer at this point in time - who knows. > >In a newspaper article from the Philadelphia Inquirer 1897 > >"Wandered Around For Forty Years >Patrick Donnelly's Return to Family After a Long Absence > ........................ > > Soon he found himself in the neighborhood of Twenty-third and >Filbert where he had lived, with his young wife, and earned a scanty living >in the mills near by. Since he had seen her and his little ones he had >changed from a young husband to a gray haired and gray whiskered old man. >....." > >My question therefore is what kind of mills would have been in the area >mentioned above at that time ? Details of the district/ward number for >this >address around 1850/1860 would also be extremely useful. > > >My thanks as always > > >Eileen > > > > > > > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message