Map of Philadelphia area placing West Philadelphia in context
West Philadelphia Community History Center

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.

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CEDAR PARK

 

Featured West Philadelphia Neighborhoods:

Overview

Cedar Park

Cobbs Creek

Mantua

Overbrook

Parkside

Powelton Village

Spruce Hill

Other neighborhood histories in progress

 

 
Map showing placement of the Cedar Park neighborhood within West Philadelphia

WEST PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOODS:
Cedar Park

Cedar Park is bounded by Spruce Street on the north, Baltimore Avenue on the south, between 46th and 52nd Streets.

Tracts in 2000 Census: 79, 80


View Cedar Park in a larger map

Histories

Cedar Park: Then and Now, by Aaron Chalal and James Fogarty (University of Pennsylvania undergraduates)
(available as a PDF file - 99 kb, 8 pages)

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