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Chestnut Street, from Ninth (Philadelphia)

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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
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ltimore stage lines ran,and it was deemed an achievement whenthose cities were brought within threedays travel. Roads were opened to severalpoints in the colony—particularly to theSusquehanna river,* and from those pointstrails were continued to the Ohio, and sup-plies carried to trading and military poststhere by trains of pack-horses. In 1771 acommission, of which Dr. Franklin was one,was appointed to select a suitable point forbridging the Schuylkill river, and Marketstreet was fixed upon. When the bridge was * In An Account of the European Settlements in America,published in London in 1761. the authorship of which is at-tributed to Edmund Burke, after aUuding to the commercialenterprise of Philadelphia, the writer says : Beside the quantity of all kinds of produce of this provincewhich is brought down the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill,* * * * the Dutch employ between eight and nine thousandwagons, drawn each by four horses, in bringing the produce oftheir farms to £his market.
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CHESTNUT STREET, FROM NINTH. PHILADELPHIA. 67

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