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Real Estate: Southwark
Here
you can find various information about the Southwark neighborhood
in Philadelphia! Southwark
was originally the Southwark District, a municipality in Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania and is today primarily a neighborhood
in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
United States.
History
Southwark
is one of the oldest settlements in the County of Philadelphia
and was its oldest district. Thanks to the populations of
the Swedish settlements of Wicaco and Moyamensing, Southwark
grew earlier than other parts of the county apart from the
city of Philadelphia. The General Assembly created the district
of Southwark on May 14, 1762, to facilitate cooperation with
regards to street-building.
The district,
as defined by the National Register of Historic Places, is
bounded by 5th Street on the West, Lombard Street on the North,
Washington Avenue on the South, and Front, Catherine, and
Queen Streets and Delaware Avenue on the East.
Due to
its location south of Philadelphia, the name was adopted as
an allusion to the borough named Southwark in the county of
Surrey, England, immediately south of the city of London.
In the
recent past, Southwark was noted as a very poor and dangerous
neighborhood. Because of this, better neighborhoods enveloped
it by slowly expanding their boundaries, until today when
you can only see a few remaining traces of this neighborhood's
name. These include Southwark restaurant at 4th and Bainbridge,
Southwark Paints further south on 4th, Southwark Development
Corp, a public housing project along Washington from 3rd to
5th, and even "Southwark" painted on a wall as far
away as 23rd and Washington.
Source
of Article:
Wikipedia.
(2008). Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved
May 30, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania
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you can find various external links about the Southwark neighborhood
in Philadelphia! To view their website, just click on the link.
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