. Philadelphia and its environs . him thaton the site of this stately pile a sloop, loaded with rum from Barbadoes, once lay anddischarged her cargo. And this explains the anomaly of the winding Dock Street in themidst of the primly-drawn right lines of the ancient town : the street was constructed over awinding creek. The Blue Anchor Tavern was the beginning of Philadelphia, but other houses were inprogress before it was finished; Front Street was soon opened, and building followed its first winter was passed by many of the inhabitants in caves dug in the river-bank, theyhaving no ti
. Philadelphia and its environs . him thaton the site of this stately pile a sloop, loaded with rum from Barbadoes, once lay anddischarged her cargo. And this explains the anomaly of the winding Dock Street in themidst of the primly-drawn right lines of the ancient town : the street was constructed over awinding creek. The Blue Anchor Tavern was the beginning of Philadelphia, but other houses were inprogress before it was finished; Front Street was soon opened, and building followed its first winter was passed by many of the inhabitants in caves dug in the river-bank, theyhaving no time to build houses before the coming of cold weather. Log houses, however,soon became numerous enough to shelter all the people ; and the growth of the city, beginningthus on the Delaware, pushed gradually north, south, and west, until it became what we nowsee it. Dock Creek, as we have seen, was obliterated. Society Hill, in the neighborhoodof Front and Pine, where Alderman Plumstead had his hanging-garden, and Whitefield, at a. PHILADELPHIA AS PENN FIRST SAW IT. THE BLUE ANCHOR LANDING. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. later day, preached to fifteen thousand people, was razed, as was also the high bluff on theDelaware bank which Penn was so anxious to preserve as a public promenade forever,ordering that no houses should be built east of Front Street. All that remains of the bluffis an occasional flight of stairs leading up from Water to Front Street. Arch Street was sunkso low in a ravine that Front Street crossed it by an arched bridge, whence it derived itsname; but bridge and ravine are both gone now. So is the Duck Pond at Fourth andMarket, into which the tide flowed, and in which boys caught fish that had found their waythere from the Delaware; and so is Peggs Run, once a considerable stream running from aspring in Spring Garden Street, near Sixth (whence the name of the former), through a marsh,to its junction with the Delaware, in the neighborhood of Noble Street. All th
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