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Crescentville is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, United States.It is located in the vicinity of Adams, Rising Sun, and Tabor Avenues. [1] The name Crescentville is thought to be derived from the Crescentville Rope Factory that once stood along the Tookany Creek watershed.
Located on a hill overlooking the Tookany Creek in North East Philadelphia on the corner of Rising Sun and Adams Avenues. In the area known as Lawncrest Administered by the Philadelphia Public Housing Authority, it has 334 units of single-family, two-story apartments and provides Section 8 (housing) for low-income families.
Campbelltown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,616 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is located east of Hershey at the intersection of U.S. Route 322 and Pennsylvania Route 117 and is located in the Harrisburg metropolitan area .
The Lawncrest Recreation Center serves both the Lawndale and Crescentville communities, as does the Lawncrest Library and Engine 64 Fire House. All are located on Rising Sun Ave between Lardner and Comly streets. There is a main business district that stretches from Robbins to Longshore Avenue and is home to well over 200 stores of various degrees.
In 1895, a 24-year-old Rising Sun Man, Sailor John A. Kay, enlisted in the Navy. When the Battleship Maine sailed for Havana Harbor in January 1898, Kay was an assistant machinist on this voyage. He and about 268 crew members perished when an explosion ripped through the vessel on February 15, 1898.
East of Rising Sun at the junction of Maryland Routes 272 and 273 39°42′04″N 75°59′00″W / 39.701111°N 75.983333°W / 39.701111; -75.983333 ( East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse
The Rising Sun Tavern, established circa 1792, and the small village formerly around it and named after it, which was formerly adjacent to (and later part of) Gap, Pennsylvania The Rising Sun Tavern, also Howard's Half-Way House or Howard's Inn, established circa 1765, in Kings County, New York in what today is the Brooklyn neighborhood of New ...
In 1921, ground was broken for the combination Church/School at Rising Sun Avenue and Robbins Street. Built of local Bethayres stone. It was dedicated on Nov 27, 1921 by Bishop Michael Crane. [3] In 1923, the parishes of St. Ambrose and - St Martin Of Tours were established which ate up a large portion of St. William's Southern and Eastern parts.