Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . , is marked by a small, plain monument erectedby the Penn Societyin 1827. There isin the yard of theFriends School,12th near ChestnutSt., a tree grownfrom a slip from theElm. Wa shingt onSquare, bounded byS. 6th, S. 7th, Wal-nut & Locust Sts., was once the heartof the fashionableresidence it is sur-rounded by large office buildings. The old First Presby-terian Church fronts on the Locust St. side of thesquare, and the mammoth building of the Curtis Pub-hshing Company on the Walnut St. side. WashingtonSquare adjoins Inde
Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . , is marked by a small, plain monument erectedby the Penn Societyin 1827. There isin the yard of theFriends School,12th near ChestnutSt., a tree grownfrom a slip from theElm. Wa shingt onSquare, bounded byS. 6th, S. 7th, Wal-nut & Locust Sts., was once the heartof the fashionableresidence it is sur-rounded by large office buildings. The old First Presby-terian Church fronts on the Locust St. side of thesquare, and the mammoth building of the Curtis Pub-hshing Company on the Walnut St. side. WashingtonSquare adjoins Independence Square at its southwestern corner,and in the early da3s was the principal potters field, wherehundreds of victims of the yellow-fever epidemic of 1793-94were buried. Later it was improved, and became noted allover the country for its many and rare trees, no two of whichwere alike. As these died, however, they were replaced byordinary species, so that now this peculiarity has been remaining old mansions are mostly devoted to College of Physicians S. 15th and Locust Streets Page 95 78 RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE
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