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    The Frankford Avenue Bridge, also known as the Pennypack Creek Bridge, the Pennypack Bridge, the Holmesburg Bridge, and the King's Highway Bridge, erected...
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    began. Penn ordered the first bridge built across the creek along the King's Highway (now Frankford Avenue) in 1697; the bridge still stands. Despite the...
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    Frankford Avenue and Bridge Street were demolished. The new $160 million Frankford terminal facility was built on a tract of land off Frankford Avenue formerly...
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    Montgomery County on the west. The southern limit is given as Frankford/Tacony Creek or Adams Avenue. The first European settlement in the Northeast was by Swedish...
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    centuries. Frankford Avenue was used as a route from Philadelphia to points north as far back as the 17th century. The Frankford Avenue Bridge across Pennypack...
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    course of Frankford Creek on the south to Castor Avenue on the northwest and southwest, to Cheltenham Avenue on the north, and to Aramingo Avenue and I-95...
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    historic clubhouse, which drew significant national attention. The Frankford Avenue Bridge over Poquessing Creek is listed on the National Register of Historic...
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    29, 2012, east of Frankford Avenue, the line started being operated by buses due to major reconstruction. West of Frankford Avenue, the line was still...
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    Elizabethtown, remains in use. A single-span concrete arch bridge where Frankford Avenue meets Bristol Pike (both U.S. Route 13), built in 1904, is notable...
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  • tributary of the Delaware River Pennypack Creek Bridge, another name for the Frankford Avenue Bridge Pennypack Park, a Philadelphia municipal park through...
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    Hunting Park Avenue, the Roosevelt Boulevard (which is also US 1), and Frankford Avenue, where it crosses Pennypack Creek on the oldest bridge in the U.S...
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    the historic, colonial Frankford Avenue Bridge. The route's eastern terminus is at City Line Loop, located at Frankford Avenue and Knights Road in Morrell...
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    1909, carry Wyoming Avenue over the old channel of Frankford Creek (since diverted) in Philadelphia. A single-span concrete arch bridge, built in 1930, carries...
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    one-way pair of streets before heading northeast out of the city on Frankford Avenue. The route continues into Bucks County as Bristol Pike, heading northeast...
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    after the Frankford Avenue Bridge (built in 1697) over Pennypack Creek in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1731, it is the oldest bridge in New...
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    Avenue Bridge, and continues through East Fairmount Park and across North Philadelphia to Frankford Avenue in the Fishtown neighborhood. At Frankford...
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    is a transportation terminal in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was once known as the Bridge-Pratt station before a complete...
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  • Philadelphia Fort Duquesne Bridge, Pittsburgh Fort Pitt Bridge, Pittsburgh Frankford Avenue Bridge, Northeast Philadelphia Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia Girard...
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    "NASA Vehicle Assembly Building | NASA". Retrieved 2022-08-10. "Main Avenue Bridge | ASCE Sections". Retrieved 2022-08-10. Gilbert, David R.; Bartlett...
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    park also contains Pennepack Baptist Church, and the Frankford Avenue Bridge, the oldest bridge still in use in the U.S. 120 Manzanares Park  Madrid Spain...
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    miles (14 km) of both directions of I-95, between the Betsy Ross Bridge/Aramingo Avenue (exit 26) and PA 63/Woodhaven Road (exit 35). The swift construction...
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    Pennsylvania portal National Register of Historic Places portal Frankford Avenue Bridge List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record...
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    intersection of Frankford Avenue and Butler Street, to the west of the interchange between Interstate 95 and the approach to the Betsy Ross Bridge. It has been...
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    Route 66 connects to the Market-Frankford Line at the Frankford Transportation Center, and extends along Frankford Avenue to the extremity of Northeast...
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  • are: Levick Street on the north, Bridge Street on the south, I-95 and the Delaware River on the east, and Frankford Avenue on the west. Wissinoming Creek...
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    I-676/US 30 interchange at Race Street. I-95 between Palmer Street and Frankford Avenue has already been rebuilt and improved upon, and an I-95 viaduct between...
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    to Bustleton Avenue, where it would be joined by the Market–Frankford Line, extended from its Frankford terminal (now the rebuilt Frankford Transportation...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serving the Market–Frankford Line. It is located at the intersection of Kensington Avenue, Huntingdon Street, and B Street in the...
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    Tioga Street and Delaware Avenue, it built 1.65 miles (2.66 km) along Delaware Avenue between 1886 and 1887. The Frankford Creek Railroad was incorporated...
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    known as Frankford. Physical boundaries of Bridesburg are: Bridge Street on the north, Aramingo Avenue and I-95 to the northwest, Frankford Creek to the...
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