Whitehall Borough was a

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that was located in

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, United States. The borough ceased to exist when it was incorporated into the

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on the passage of the

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History

The area takes its name from White Hall, a grand mansion built there by Jesse Waln.''The Bristol Pike'', by Samuel Fitch Hotchkin, published by George W. Jacobs, 1893 When it was incorporated into a borough on April 9, 1849, it covered what today is called East Frankford, between the Little Tacony (or Tackawanna) and Frankford Creeks, including Frankford and Bridesburg Stations on the former

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, Whitehall Commons, and the

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.William Bucke Campbell, ''Old Towns and Districts of Philadelphia'', City History Society of Philadelphia, 1942.
/ref> It lay northwest of Bridesburg Borough, and southeast of Frankford Borough. It was situated in the old township of Tacony and the later Northern Liberties Township. In 1853, the part of Whitehall that lay between Torresdale Avenue and Frankford Creek and below what is now Whitehall Commons was ceded to the borough of Frankford, leaving it with an area of only 0.471 square mile.

References

Resources

''Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683-1854''
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excerpted at ushistory.org {{PhilaCnty1854 Municipalities in Philadelphia County prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854 1849 establishments in Pennsylvania 1854 disestablishments in Pennsylvania