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    Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the...
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    Gray's Ferry Bridge (more recently, Grays Ferry Bridge) has been the formal or informal name of several floating bridges and four permanent ones that...
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  • Mickey Duffy (category Burials at Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia))
    beer bootleggers in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Born William Michael Cusick to Polish immigrants in Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he changed...
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  • at Lexington and Concord. 1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration. 1792 – France...
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    6th Street Central South Philadelphia Christian Street Historic District Devil's Pocket: Irish neighborhood west of Grays Ferry Avenue Dickinson Square...
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    Legends, &c. Philadelphia: Fitzgibbon & Van Ness. pp. 118. grays. Philadelphia portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gray's Ferry Tavern. 1924...
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    boundaries of the neighborhood are set by the surrounding brick wall on Grays Ferry Avenue to the east, Bainbridge Street to the north, Schuylkill Avenue...
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  • of and the Grays Ferry Branch (also 32nd Street Branch) south of West Philadelphia. Except for the Market Street Tunnel, the Grays Ferry Branch was part...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Kingsessing and Grays Ferry neighborhoods. Part of a long succession of ferry and bridge crossings at this location, the bridge...
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  • Garden Homes North Philadelphia Tasker Homes South Philadelphia, in the Grays Ferry neighborhood (demolished, replaced by Greater Grays Ferry Estates) Westpark...
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    John Wanamaker (category Businesspeople from Philadelphia)
    administration from 1889 to 1893. Wanamaker was born in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia on July 11, 1838. to John Nelson Wanamaker, a brickmaker...
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    may put your health at risk." It was found that a refinery in Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, is responsible for most of the toxic air emissions in the city...
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  • St. Clair, Mill Creek Mine Railroad (abandoned) Grays Ferry Tunnel, CSX, Grays Ferry, Philadelphia Greer Tunnel, Norfolk Southern, Washington County...
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    South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood, bordered by Christian and Taney streets, Grays Ferry Avenue...
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  • Center City West, Hawthorne, University City, Point Breeze, and Grays Ferry. Philadelphia serves as an example of urban growth, decline, and regrowth along...
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    separated from Grays Ferry to the west by a CSX railway viaduct over 25th Street. According to historical maps, much of what is South Philadelphia, including...
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    of South Philadelphia, including Grays Ferry, Devil's Pocket and areas of Girard Estate, Southwest Center City and Schuylkill. Philadelphia's large Irish...
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    married Richard Hubbell Hopkins. On his 61st birthday, Muhlenberg died in Gray's Ferry, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 1807, and is buried at the Augustus Lutheran...
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    the city. Philadelphia was represented by the Washington Grays in the American Civil War. The African-American population of Philadelphia increased from...
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  • Lady of Blessed Sacrement and St. Donato. St. Gabriel School (Grays Ferry, Philadelphia) In 2012 the archdiocese considered closing the school, but kept...
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    Grays Road Recreation Center is an historic recreation center, which is located in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was...
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    5311 Florence Avenue. Grays Ferry Bridge 49th Street station (SEPTA Regional Rail) Schuylkill River Trail Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Kingsessing...
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    B&O Railroad Bridge (category Bridges in Philadelphia)
    on the west bank to the east bank Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It carries CSX Philadelphia Subdivision rail lines over the river...
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    Kenyatta Johnson (category Philadelphia City Council members)
    and Southwest Philadelphia, as well as the stadium area, Philadelphia International Airport, the Navy Yard and the Eastwick, Grays Ferry, Hawthorne and...
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  • Hans Månsson (category History of Philadelphia)
    over operation of the Jochimsson plantation at Aronameck (now Grays Ferry, Philadelphia) and raised Ella's two children by Peter Jochimsson as his own...
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    Street, the northern border of the neighborhood. Along Grays Ferry Avenue is the former Philadelphia Naval Asylum or Naval Home, designed in 1826 by William...
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    Odunde Festival (category Festivals in Philadelphia)
    calendar. It is centered at the intersection of Grays Ferry Avenue and South Street in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ruth Arthur and Lois Fernandez...
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  • John Hansson Steelman (category Businesspeople from Philadelphia)
    Persson Stille. Steelman was born Johan Hansson in Aronameck or Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1693 he changed his name to John Hansson Steelman...
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    1926 the Schuylkill Arsenal was renamed the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot. The original site at Grays Ferry Avenue and Washington Avenue was closed and...
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    Paschall Ave where it jogs to join Grays Ferry where the line runs to the Schuylkill River. Southwest Philadelphia is also described by the city as being...
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