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    Bridesburg is the northernmost neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A mostly working-class neighborhood...
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    Richmond District Aramingo Borough Bridesburg Borough Northern Liberties Township As defined by the Philadelphia Urban Planning Commission, the River...
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    Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation...
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    districts (Belmont, Kensington, Moyamensing, Richmond) or boroughs (Bridesburg, Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk) before being incorporated into the city...
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    Bridesburg School, also known as Irving School, was a historic school in the Bridesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the third-oldest...
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    rolling-block action. A single-shot action developed by Barton Jenks from Bridesburg, Philadelphia right after the Civil War was locked not by the hammer itself,...
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    Bridesburg station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Bridge Street and Harbison Avenue in the Bridesburg neighborhood...
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    Frankford Arsenal (category Bridesburg, Philadelphia)
    States Army ammunition plant located adjacent to the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of the original course of Frankford...
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    Betsy Ross Bridge (category Bridesburg, Philadelphia)
    which were later constructed to serve nearby Aramingo Avenue in Philadelphia's Bridesburg section. The route serves as a high-level multi-lane with six...
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  • Elementary School To Be Established in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. 2005-01-23. Archived from the original...
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    Dublin, Moreland, and Oxford, (largely rural areas); and the boroughs of Bridesburg, Frankford, and White Hall, which were more urbanized. While most of the...
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    was the third most segregated white neighborhood in Philadelphia (after Girard Estates and Bridesburg), with 96% white residents. By 2024, the percentage...
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  • west, West Kensington and Kensington to the south, and Port Richmond and Bridesburg to the east. Harrowgate was founded in 1784 by Capt. George Esterly, a...
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    North Philadelphia station is an intercity rail and regional rail station on the Northeast Corridor, located on North Broad Street in the North Philadelphia...
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  • is a neighborhood at the northern end of the North Philadelphia planning district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Many of the houses in...
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    central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the area that made up the City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation...
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  • Watershed Early History". Bridesburg, PA. Retrieved 20 November 2019. "Hill Creek Public Housing, Rising Sun and Adams Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 1938". ExplorePAhistory...
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    Connecting to Northeast Philadelphia are the Betsy Ross Bridge, a six-lane bridge linking the Bridesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia with Pennsauken, New...
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    SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs...
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    first U.S. Army Chief of Artillery. General Randolph was born in Bridesburg, Philadelphia on June 11, 1841, to Dr. Charles Fitz and Margaret "Gooch" Randolph...
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    St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia, is located in Northeast Philadelphia in Bridesburg and serves the local Polish-speaking population...
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    and to Aramingo Avenue and I-95 on the east. Adjacent neighborhoods are Bridesburg, Juniata, Northwood, Summerdale, and Wissinoming. Historically, Frankford...
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    Avenue. From here, the freeway heads into Northeast Philadelphia, passing north of the Bridesburg neighborhood and reaching a partial interchange with...
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    major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is metropolitan Philadelphia's main railroad station and a major stop...
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    the Port Richmond-Bridesburg area, as well as areas of Kensington and the Northeast. Around 65,000 Germans settled in Philadelphia between 1727 and 1775...
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    Jr. Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843. Dripps, M. Map of the Township of Oxford, Boroughs of Frankford and Bridesburg, 1849....
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    in Providence, New Haven, Stamford, New York City, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore. The NEC closely parallels Interstate 95 for...
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  • expands to encompass all of Philadelphia County, including: Aramingo Borough, Belmont District, Blockley Township, Bridesburg Borough, Bristol Township...
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    ex-Electric Traction Company Bridesburg Line on Richmond Street – in 1903, and eventually replaced the Bridesburg Line entirely to Bridesburg.[citation needed] In...
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    Bridesburg School, closed 1894 Charles R. Drew, closed 2013 Charles Schaeffer School Daniel Boone School (now houses Achieve Academy of Philadelphia)...
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