. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. THE CITYS PARKS AND DRIVES. 57 1782 the place was tenanted by General the Baron de Steuben. Thehouse is now utilized as a restaurant. A short distance above Mount Pleasant is Rockland (with Rock-land Steamboat landing), a residence built about 1810, near a pro-montory from which there is a beautiful ew of the river and of theheights beyond it. Other old estates are passed as we move on,especially Orniistoii and Edgeley, below the great East Park Reser-voir, beyond which we turn inland, and,
. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. THE CITYS PARKS AND DRIVES. 57 1782 the place was tenanted by General the Baron de Steuben. Thehouse is now utilized as a restaurant. A short distance above Mount Pleasant is Rockland (with Rock-land Steamboat landing), a residence built about 1810, near a pro-montory from which there is a beautiful ew of the river and of theheights beyond it. Other old estates are passed as we move on,especially Orniistoii and Edgeley, below the great East Park Reser-voir, beyond which we turn inland, and, making a long detour pastthe old Woodford mansion (now used as a Park Police office, andnoted for the Franklin trees in its garden), we reach the DauphinStreet or Ridge Avenue entrance to the park, and the populousprecincts of Strawberry Hill. This is the terminus of several linesof street-cars marked Strawberry Mansion, and of the ParkTrolley. Strawberry Mansion is an old-fashioned country-housesurrounded by big trees, and commanding a large view ofthe riverand the parks beyond it. Here are croq
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