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Construction of the Mill Creek Sewer in West Philadelphia, ca. 1883. The Philadelphia Water Department has been providing water to citizens since 1801, when, in the aftermath of a series of devastating yellow fever epidemics that killed thousands of people, the City decided a source of water was needed to cleanse the streets, fight fires, and perform household chores.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 15.4 square miles (40 km 2), all land and in the Delaware watershed.The Perkiomen Creek begins in Hereford Township and drains it into the Schuylkill River, except for a very small portion north of Seisholtzville that drains via the Little Lehigh Creek into the Lehigh River.
A post office called Hereford was in operation from 1830 to 2019. [4] The community took its name from Hereford Township. [5] It was previously known as Treichlersville. [6] At the end of March 2019 the post office closed on very short notice because the owner refused to renew the lease. [7]
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Philadelphia (/ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i. ə / ⓘ fill-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Jace Hanson, 22, a former employee of the Hereford House restaurant in Leawood, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 22 felony counts of criminal threat for allegedly contaminating food, as well as one ...
Bridesburg is the northernmost neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] A mostly working-class neighborhood, Bridgesburg is an historically German and Irish community, with a significant community of Polish immigrants who arrived mostly in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
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