Faculty and Students at the University of Pennsylvania inaugurated this heritage site in the spring of 2008.
This virtual history center will be an ever-revised and expanded resource by and for members of the
West Philadelphia community, and especially for teachers and their students.
Maps: Haverford Avenue, 65th to 67th Streets (Haddington)
Maps: Smedley's 1862 Atlas of the City of Philadelphia
Description:
Detail of Plate 8 showing Haverford Avenue, 65th to 67th Streets (Haddington)
Smedley's atlas of the city of Philadelphia: carefully prepared from official records in the survey department of the city of Philadelphia, and from private records and original surveys; exhibiting on a large scale the size of blocks, width of streets, courts and alleys; location of churches, public buildings, parks, squares, cemeteries, rail road routes; and the extent and present position of buildings throughout the city by Samuel L. Smedley.
Author: Samuel Lightfoot Smedley; published by J.B. Lippincott, 1862.
[52] plates: maps ; 59 cm.
Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
VIEW the four plates of West Philadelphia from this atlas as a 4 page PDF file.
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