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.
WEST PHILADELPHIA NEIGHBORHOODS:
Mantua
Mantua is bounded by Mantua Avenue and Parrish Street on the north and east, Hamilton Street and Lancaster Avenue on the south and 40th Street on the west.
Tracts in 2000 Census: 108, 109
View Mantua in a larger map
Mantua: a History of a West Philadelphia Neighborhood by Michael Garafalo (University of Pennsylvania undergraduate)
(available as a PDF file - 56 kb, 17 pages)
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