:: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: (More
to this city than just the Goth scene)
- History ::
- The City of Philadelphia was
laid out by William Penn.
- The original city
comprised only the portion of the present city situated
between South and Vine Streets and Delaware and
Schuylkill Rivers.
- William Rittenhouse
established the first paper mill along the Wissahickon Creek
in 1690.
- 1698 a Quaker meeting House
was built on the south west corner of Second and High
(Market) Streets. Which was later pulled down in 1755, and
another erected, which was only to be demolished in 1808.
- Philadelphia Library founded
)1 July 1731.
- The first theatrical
performance in Philadelphia was on 15 April 1745 and took
place in a storehouse located at Water Street, near Vine.
- The first Continental
Congress gathered in Philadelphia in 1774.
- The second Continental
Congress gathered in Philadelphia in 1775.
- 04 July 1776 The Declaration
of Independence adopted.
- Philadelphia the seat of
national government from 1776 to 1800 (except for a brief
period in 1789 and 1790) until Washington, D.C., became the
capital in 1800.
- 1792 United States Mint
established in Philadelphia. The US mint was erected on the
east side of Seventh Street just above Sugar Alley (later
known as Farmer Street, now called Filbert Street).
- Philadelphia was the largest
city in America from 1800 until 1830.
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