RichmondOriginally the name of a tract of land in the township of Northern Liberties, adjoining the Delaware north of Ball Town and south of Point-No-Point. It was incorporated as a district on February 27, 1847. It extended along the Delaware River to a point some distance northwest of the upper end of Petty's Island; then northwest nearly to the point where Frankford Creek makes its most southerly bend; thence southerly bend; thence southwest to Westmoreland Street; northwest along the same to Emerald Street; southwest along the latter to a lane running from Frankford Turnpike to Nicetown Lane; along Frankford Turnpike to the north Delaware River. The area was 1163 acres.
This unassuming structure sits across Delaware Avenue from Penn Treaty Park and serves some of the best sandwiches in Philadelphia. Known for its cheesesteaks, roast pork and hot sausage, Johnny’s…
Delaware Avenue and Shackamaxon Street Website One of two sites licensed for slot casino development by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the site was so named because of its former use as a sugar refinery. The…
This half-acre strip along a pier is named after Casimir Pulaski, a Polish military commander and American Revolutionary war hero who died in the Battle of Savannah. This sliver of…
Richmond Station is one of three early power plants built by the Philadelphia Electric Power Company in the early 20th century. It once housed the world’s largest Westinghouse turbo-generator, and…
This site has been vacant so long it resembles natural grassland, and in fact provides quite a beautiful stroll in autumn. And it will remain vacant for a time, with…
The looming white oil storage tanks along Allegheny Avenue are there for a reason. Oil has simply supplanted coal on a site that, 150 years ago, was famous for making…
Beach Street
The Delaware Power Station was built by the Philadelphia Electric Company in 1920, to avert a predicted power shortage. It labored steadily from then on, with an expansion in 1954,…
On the river at the line of East Huntingdon Street
A last vestige of the once-great Richmond Coal Wharves, Pier 18 is noted by boaters and shore-strollers for its elevated…
Circa 1847. Curving from Dyott Street up Aramingo Avenue
Before it was a street, Aramingo Avenue was a canal. And before that, it was a well-known natural creek called Gunner’s…
The toy that walks down stairs was invented on the Delaware waterfront, at the old Cramps Shipyard in Port Richmond.
One day in the 1945, a naval engineer at the…
Buried in the 1850s, Cohocksink Creek once formed the boundary between Northern Liberties and Kensington. The stream emptied into the Delaware at Brown Street. Its name, an Indian term with…
Richmond Street at Dyott Street
Nowhere does the widespread destruction of Philadelphia’s waterfront history seem crueler than at Dyottsville. Nothing but a grassy field today that was the proposed Pinnacle Casino site, this area on the…
Only one building remains of the once world-famous Cramps Shipyard, and it’s about to be torn down. The Cramps Shipyard Building is a square-shouldered former machine shop that stands with…
Richmond Power Plant
The property, just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge, is not within Philadelphia Park's 10-mile exclusionary zone. It was first mentioned as a possible casino re-site after…
