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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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one hundredand five acres, is now being constructed. Continuing up this side ofthe river, we come finally to Laurel Hill Cemetery (see Cemeteries),and then to the massive stone bridge over which the coal-trains of theReading Railroad pass on their way to Richmond. (See Bridges.) We shall, however, find more marks of improvement by crossing theGirard Avenue Bridge into the West Park. Below the Bridge, on the west side, is a tract called Solitude, andin it stands an ancient house built by John Penn, son of Thomas Pennand grandson of William, and owned by his descendants until its pur-chase by the Park Commissioners. Just beyond this, the tall stand-pipeof the West Philadelphia Water-Works forms a conspicuous feature. This tract, containing thirty-three acres, has been leased by the ParkCommissioners to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, which has FAIR MOUNT PARK. 59 fitted it up in a manner best suited for the maintenance and exhibitionof birds and animals. (See Zoological Garden.)
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ENTRANCE AT EGGLESFIELD. A short distance above the bridge is the Childrens Play-ground, nearSweet Brier Mansion, and passing this the road enters Lansdowne andcrosses the river road by a rustic bridge, from which a beautiful view ofthe Schuylkill is had. Venerable pines mark the site of Lansdowne Concourse. This fineestate of Lansdowne contained two hundred acres, and was establishedby John Penn, the American, whose nephew, also named John, the 6o FAIRMOUNT PARK. son of Richard Perm, built a stately mansion here, and lived in it duringthe Revolutionary war,—a struggle in which his sympathies were by no

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