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| 材料类型： | 互联网资源 |
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| 文件类型： | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Kenneth W Milano |
| ISBN: | 9781596294486 1596294485 |
| OCLC号码： | 191882022 |
| 描述： | 128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| 内容： | Olden days of Kensington. Lenni-Lenape : original inhabitants of Shackamaxon ; The Swedish settlement of Shackamaxon ; Did William Penn's treaty with the Lenni-Lenape take place? ; Hope Farm and the founding of Port Richmond ; The building and breakup of the Fairhill Estate -- Early industry in Kensington and Fishtown. Early glassmaking in Kensington ; John Hewson : calico textile printer and Revolutionary War hero ; The fishermen of Fishtown ; John Harrison : America's first industrial chemist ; William Cramp : founder of William Cramp and Sons shipyard ; Kensington's sixth ward : textile capital of Philadelphia ; Edwin Henry Fitler : Kensington-born mayor of Philadelphia ; Hamilton Disston : industrialist and real estate tycoon -- Recreation in the neighborhood. Bachelor's Hall : Kensington's first gentlemen's club ; Point Pleasant : a colonial resort ; Bathtown : Kensington's colonial spa ; Fishtown Park ; Shackamaxon Square ; The Bramble Club ; Benjamin F. Shibe : baseball man -- Interesting nineteenth-century vignettes. Earliest known use of the name "Fishtown" ; A picture of Kensington in 1811 ; Edgar Allan Poe reports on Kensington in 1840 ; USS Alligator : first submarine of the United States Navy ; A look at Frankford Avenue in 1890 ; Kensington's elite addresses of the 1890s ; The Cohocksink Creek : Kensington's historical border -- Stories of cemeteries, churches, and hospitals. West Street burial ground ; Hanover burial grounds ; Early worship in Kensington ; The Bible Christian Church and the founding of the vegetarian movement ; Saint Michael's Church 175th anniversary ; The yellow fever comes to Kensington ; Norris Square : home of Dr. Kelly's Kensington Hospital for Women, Saint Boniface Church and the Kensington Tuberculosis Dispensary -- Some Kensington biographies. Thomas Moran : American landscape painter ; Albert C. Barnes : inventor and art collector ; W.C. Fields and Ed Wynn : actors and comedians ; Jack "Legs" Diamond : American gangster ; Edward Corner : marine merchandiser and philanthropist. |
| 丛书名： | American chronicles |
| 其他题名： | Remembering Fishtown and Kensington |
| 责任： | Kenneth W. Milano. |
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