File:Signs Beaver and Dial Philadelphia.jpg
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English: Location of the "Sign of the Dial" at Front and Chestnut Streets, where Thomas Stretch apprenticed and plied his trade as a clockmaker, Peter Stretch's Corner, inherited in 1746 from his father. Around 1747-8 Thomas sold his father's property and Front and Chestnut and consolidated the business a block further west, at his second property at the southwest corner of Second and Chestnut, one block east of son-in-law Samuel Howell's property, "Sign of the Beaver", at the corner of Strawberry Alley and Chestnut. Howell also owned the Crooked Billet Tavern and its dock. Detail from "Plan of the City of Philadelphia and its Environs (Showing the Improved Parts)," 1797. |
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Detail from "Plan of the City of Philadelphia and its Environs (Showing the Improved Parts)," 1797, John Hill, publisher, showing the downtown area. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Published in 1797. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007625050/#about-this-item |
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