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The Fairmount Park Trolley
Language: en
Pages: 48
Authors: Harold E. Cox
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Philadelphia Trolleys
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Allen Meyers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the city. After the Civil War, the horse-drawn omnibus gave way to a
The Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Michael J. Seneca
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: McFarland

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For four years, early in the last century, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park. They drew half
West Philadelphia
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Robert Morris Skaler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-01 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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The many neighborhoods west of the Schuylkill River across from William Penn's "Quaker City" were distinctly rural until 1860, when horsecar lines first crossed
Philadelphia's Fairmount Park
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: James D. Ristine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Philadelphia's Fairmount Park focuses on the more than four thousand acres of land along the east and west banks of the Schuylkill River and into parts of the W