Penn District is a defunct

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that was located in

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. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the

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following the passage of the

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History

Penn District, was a portion of the Penn Township which was north of the north boundary-line of Spring Garden between Delaware, Sixth Street and the

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and between a line parallel with Hickory Lane (formerly Coates Street, now Fairmont Avenue), west of Sixth Street as far as Broad Street, and then due west to the Schuylkill, and along the same to a line parallel with, and at a distance of one hundred feet north of Susquehanna Avenue, and thence to the middle of the sixth Street. It was created a district by Act of the

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on February 26, 1844, as "the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the district of Penn".

Resources

''Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683-1854''
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- excerpted from the book at the ushistory.org website {{Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Municipalities in Philadelphia County prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854 1844 establishments in Pennsylvania 1854 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Populated places established in 1844