Penn District, Pennsylvania

Penn District
Former Township
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Philadelphia
Coordinates 39°57′00″N 75°09′15″W / 39.95000°N 75.15417°W / 39.95000; -75.15417Coordinates: 39°57′00″N 75°09′15″W / 39.95000°N 75.15417°W / 39.95000; -75.15417
Timezone EST (UTC-5)
 - summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Area code 215
Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania highlighting Penn District prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854
Location of Penn District in Pennsylvania
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States

Penn District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.

History

Penn District, was a portion of the Penn Township which was north of the north boundary-line of Spring Garden between Delaware, Sixth Street and the Schuylkill River and between a line parallel with Hickory Lane (formerly Coates Street, now Fairmont Avenue), west of Sixth Street as far as Broad Street, and then due west to the Schuylkill, and along the same to a line parallel with, and at a distance of one hundred feet north of Susquehanna Avenue, and thence to the middle of the sixth Street.

It was created a district by Act of the assembly on February 26, 1844, as "the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the district of Penn".

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