Description: Northern Liberties, Pennsylvania, Brief History, Paperback Visit the Philadelphia neighborhood that has gone from Leni-Lenape territory to an amazing industrial riverside community.Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial River Wards of North Philadelphia after being annexed by the city in 1854. The district's mills and factories were powered not just by the Delaware River and its tributaries but also by immigrants from across Europe and the city's largest community of free African Americans. The Liberties' diverse narrative, however, was marred by political and social problems, such as the anti-Irish Nativist Riots of 1844. Local historian Harry Kyriakodis traces over three hundred years of the district's evolution, from its rise as a premier manufacturing precinct to the destruction of much of the original cityscape in the 1960s and its subsequent rebirth as an eclectic and vibrant urban neighborhood. In this first history of Northern Liberties, Kyriakodis unearths the story of this remarkable riverside community.
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MPN: 9781609496821
Book Title: Northern Liberties : the Story of a Philadelphia River Ward
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 6in
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Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Historical, Sociology / Urban
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Photography, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 0.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
