Identifier: philadelphiaitse00jb (find matches)
Title: Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: J.B. Lippincott & Co
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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VIEW ON THE SCHUYLKILL, SHOWING THE BOAT-HOUSES AND LEMON HILL. Brown Street entrance; or a Ridge Avenue car, which will carry him to the East Park; or, ifwell up town, a Poplar Street or Girard Avenue car, which will deposit him at Brown Street andGirard Avenue respectively. The Lancaster Avenue branch of the Chestnut and Walnut 66 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS.
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PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 67 Streets line runs to the Centennial grounds in the West Park, and a branch of the MarketStreet line will be extended to the same point this year. All these termini, except the extremewestern and northern ones, are in the immediate vicinity of Fairmount Water-Works, at thelower end of the Park. Another route is by the Park accommodation trains of the Philadelphiaand Reading Railroad, which in summer run every hour during the day and carry passengersfrom the depot at Thirteenth and Callowhill to Belmont, on the west side of the Schuylkill.Accommodation trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad also run to Hestonville, within a shortwalk of Georges Hill, at the western end of the Park. Lastly, the visitor can hire a carriage by the day and make the tour of the Park withoutfatigue or difficulty; and for mere sight-seeing this is much the best way. Entering the Park at the lower entrance, we step at once into the grounds pertaining to theScliuylkill Water-Works;

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