Identifier: randmcnallycosha06chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e any specialnotice. William Penn left five squares upon his original plot of thecity. The central one was the ground now covered by the City Hall,and latterly known as Penn Square ; the others are Franklin, Washing-ton, Rittenhouse, and Logan. Franklin Square is an area of 6.7 acres,bounded by Race and Vine, Sixth and Seventh streets. It was usedfor many years as a burying-ground, and headstones still lie flatabove graves whose bones have long ago mouldered into dust. It isfilled with large, handsome trees, has a fine fountain, and is sur-rounded by old-fashioned streets. It has been suitably named, forFranklin lived and is buried in this quarter. Washington Squareadjoins Independence Square at its southwestern corner, and inthe early days was the principal Potters Field, where hundreds ofvictims of the yellow-fever epidemic of i793-94 were buried. Laterit was improved, and became noted all over the country for its trees,no two of which were alike, and many were very uncommon, but as
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THE CITYS PARKS AND DRIVES. 65 these died they were replaced by ordinary species, so that now thispeculiarity has been lost. The streets about it were formerly fashion-able, and many old mansions remain, but are mostly devoted tooffices. A neat soldiers monument adorns it. Rittenhottse Square is still the center of a highly fashionabledistrict, and is well cared for. Its ornament is a bronze group byBarye,—the Lion and the Serpent. Logan Square was in earlydays a Potters Field, and place for the execution of criminals; andhere was held, during the Civil War, the great Sanitary Fair. It isnow a handsome park among fine residences, and has a soldiersmonument. Another square identified with old times is the WilliamPenn Treaty Park, on the Delaware River, in Kensington. It isa small tract, and owes its existence to the fact that there grew thetraditional Treaty Elm (destroyed in 1819) beneath which WilliamPenn is said to have made that agreement with the Delaware Indiansin 1682, which,

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