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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJ0_delplaine-house_Philadelphia-PA.html
This buildingerected byThe Market SquareCorporation,is a reconstructionof the Delplaine Housewhich stood on this site fromthe Settlement until 1884 A.D.G. Whitefield preached fromthe Balcony overlooking theSquare. Many Women andChildren found ref…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIZ_market-square_Philadelphia-PA.html
Market Squarewas the center of the British line inThe Battle of GermantownOctober 4, 1777.
Here the artillery was parked.The left wing, under Lt. Gen. Knyphausen,extended along School House Lane to Ridge Road, comprising the commands of Major …
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This house was built before 1700.At the time of the Battle ofGermantown, October 4, 1777, itwas used as a British fieldhospital.
Lafayette, on his second visitto the United States wasentertained here July 20, 1825.———— &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIW_the-tulpehocken-station-historic-district_Philadelphia-PA.html
A Victorian suburbas designated bythe United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIU_ebenezer-maxwell-mansion_Philadelphia-PA.html
Community efforts in the 1950s and 60s preserved this Gothic and Second Empire style house, one of the earliest recognized for its Victorian period architecture. The surrounding Tulpehocken Station historic district was among the nation's first ra…
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Author of "The Virginian" (1902), which became the prototype for the Western novel. This work defined the cowboy as folk hero & coined the phrase, "When you call me that, smile!" Born here, Wister was a lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIJ_ora-washington_Philadelphia-PA.html
African American athlete who dominated black women's tennis, 1929-1937. She won eight national singles titles from American Tennis Association; Tribunes, women's basketball team, 1932-1942; played and taught here at YMCA.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIH_louisa-may-alcott_Philadelphia-PA.html
The author of "Little Women" was born here at "Pine Place," Nov. 29, 1832, to the educator Bronson Alcott and his wife Abigail. An abolitionist, Civil War nurse, and suffragist, she wrote children's books and gothic thrillers. The Alcotts lived in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVIE_first-protest-against-slavery_Philadelphia-PA.html
Here in 1688, at the home of Tunes Kunders, an eloquent protest was written by a group of German Quakers. Signed by Pastorius and three others, it preceded by 92 years Pennsylvania's passage of the nation's first abolition law.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGIZ_battle-of-germantown_Philadelphia-PA.html
On the morning of the Battle of Germantown, October 4 1777, the Pennsylvania Militia, underGen'l John Armstrong, occupying the high ground on the west sideof the creek opposite this point, engaged in a skirmish the left wing of the British forces,…