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On the 18th of the 5th mo. following, Council, reciting an Act of Assembly made at New Castle in 1700, Resolved, that "one or both of the said roads are confirmed, and the matter now depending at law," they leave it "to the law and the judges." How it was settled is not known, but long afterwards the Cohocksink was crossed only at Front Street. Anthony Klincken, in those early days, never came to Philadelphia without his gun, that he might bag some geese and ducks at the pond where now is the busy scene of Fourth and Market Streets. That he came by Front Street is evident, for his delight was to shoot rats at Pool's Bridge.

Scull and Heap's map of 1750 show Front Street to have been, at that time, the only route. With the growth of the city, however, Second and Third Streets, and the Old York Road, appeared on General Nicola's manuscript plan of the British works of defence of 1778, on Varle's map of about 1794, on Hills rare map of 1794, and on A. P. Folie's of 1795. Of them all, when opened, Second Street was no doubt found to be the most convenient. To view Second Street and the Germantown Road, as one avenue, and to consider that along the latter are paved sidewalks and water and gas mains, as well as an almost continuous Belgian pavement all the way to Chestnut Hill, and that the whole of this great distance of thirteen miles of street and road is built up with but few gaps, it may well be called one of the greatest avenues of any city of the world. The Germantown Road proper commences at Front Street, just where, when the British occupied the city, their line of works of defence crossed, at what once was Maiden Street, but now is Laurel. It was only through the formidable military barriers at that point that any one from the direction of Frankford or Germantown could obtain access to the city. On the west side of Front Street, not far from where we leave it, there formerly stood, according to the map of 1750, the "Sugar House," between Green and Coates Streets.

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Nazwa: Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Pennsylvania Historical Society of
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330695609
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 580
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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