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Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ted buildingswhich stood here in 1776 are now connected, others having been builtin the spaces between them, and the entire square is now used for court-rooms and offices connected with them, and has a local reputation as State-House Row. Visitors are admitted to Independence Hall between 9 a.m. and 4P.M. daily. An interesting museum of articles connected with Ameri-can history has been established in an adjoining room, which containsmuch to attract the attention of the patriotic visitor. The wide sidewalk in front of State-House Row is paved with slate,which forms an admirable pavement, and is ornamented with trees.Two drinking-fountains represent one of Philadelphias noblest charities,and a statue of Washington guards the place whose memory is so in-separably linked with his own. Independence Hall is reached from the northern and northwesternsections of the city by the cars on Fourth and on Sixth Streets (stoppingat Chestnut Street); by the cars of the Union line, passing at Seventh
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LEAGUE ISLAND NAVY-YARD.—LIBRARIES. 73 and Chestnut Streets, one square distant; by the Green Street cars,which pass at Fourth and Chestnut, one square distant; and by theRidge Avenue cars, which pass at Sixth and Arch Streets, two squaresdistant. From the west the Arch Street cars pass at Sixth and ArchStreets, two squares distant; the Market Street cars, at Sixth andMarket, one square distant; the Chestnut Street cars pass the door,and the Spruce Street cars pass at Sixth and Spruce, two squares dis-tant. From the south the Fifth Street cars pass at Chestnut, near theHall, and the Eighth Street cars two squares distant. Independence Square. See Public Squares. Jefferson Medical College. See Medical Schools. LEAGUE ISLAND NAVY-YARD. League Island, to which the navy-yard of the United States inPhiladelphia has recently been transferred, is situated at the junctionof the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, at the extreme southern end ofBroad Street, and about seven miles from the new Cit

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