Everything about Penn Township Philadelphia County Pennsylvania totally explained
Penn Township is a defunct
township that was located in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the
City of Philadelphia following the passage of the
Act of Consolidation, 1854.
History
Penn Township was formed from the western portion of the
Northern Liberties Township by order of the
Court of Quarter Sessions in the year
1807. It was north of Vine Street, bounded on the east by Sixth Street to the intersection of the road to
Germantown; thence by the same north by west to the foot of Logan’s Hill; southwest to the township line road; along the same to a point a short distance above Manheim Lane; then over in a southwest direction to the
Schuylkill River, and down the same to Vine Street. Its greatest length was four miles; its greatest width three miles; area, 7680 acres (31 km²).
The districts of
Spring Garden and
Penn were created out of this township, and it included portions of
Rising Sun and
Nicetown and Fort St. Davids, afterward called Falls Village. It was traversed in a northwestern direction by the Ridge Avenue, from Nine and Vine Streets, and northeastwardly from the Schulykill, between Fairmount and Lemon Hill, by Farmers’ Lane, which ran into the Germantown Road, and by Nicetown Lane, from the Ridge Road below the Falls, and over to Nicetown, Germantown and beyond.
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