Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON BY MEDAL PRESENTED TO WASHINGTON PA Page Names of Streets. 499 NAMES OF STREETS. P. 492.—In 1854, Councils ordered finger-boards to be placedat the corners of Arch and Race streets with those names uponthem instead of Mulberry and Sassafras, although Mulberry streetwas commonly called the Arch street as early as 1720; andordered also
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON BY MEDAL PRESENTED TO WASHINGTON PA Page Names of Streets. 499 NAMES OF STREETS. P. 492.—In 1854, Councils ordered finger-boards to be placedat the corners of Arch and Race streets with those names uponthem instead of Mulberry and Sassafras, although Mulberry streetwas commonly called the Arch street as early as 1720; andordered also the north and south streets to be designated numer-ically west of Broad street—Fifteenth street instead of SchuylkillEighth street, and so on to Twenty-third street. Broad street,though actually Fourteenth, retains the old name. In 1856-57 a new arrangement was made by ordinance ofCouncil for numbering houses—west of Front street, south side,as 100; west of Second street, 200; of Third street, 300; and soon to the Schuylkill, the odd numbers on the north side; interme-diate numbers to correspond numerically; old numbers to beremoved. Cable Lane, called so as early as 1701, from the ropewalk ofJoseph Wilcox near by, is now called New Market street. King
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