Everything about Spring Garden District Pennsylvania totally explained
Spring Garden District is a defunct
district that was located in
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the
City of Philadelphia following the passage of the
Act of Consolidation, 1854. It corresponds largely (although not entirely) with today's
Spring Garden neighborhood.
History
Spring Garden appears in Varie’s map of
1796 as a small settlement between
Vine Street and
Buttonwood Lane and a point on a line with Seventh Street, and extending as far west as
Ridge Road. There was a street (now known as Franklin Street) which ran north from
Vine Street across
Callowhill, and stopped opposite a house half-way between Callowhill, and Buttonwood Lane. The Street now known as Eighth Street (then called Garden Street) ran through the centre of the district, and the street now called Darien, formally Garden Street (then called Spring Street) ran from Vine to Buttonwood.
The district was incorporated
March 22,
1813, as "the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the district of Spring Garden." The original boundaries were Vine Street on the south; the middle of Hickory Lane (afterwards Coates Street, now Fairmount Avenue) on the north;
Broad Street on; the west, and the middle of Sixth Street on; the east.
On
March 21,
1827, the district was enlarged by adding; that part of
Penn Township beginning at the middle of Sixth Street to a point 210 feet north of the north side of Poplar Lane; thence northwest, parallel to the lane, at a distance of 200 feet from the latter, to the middle of Broad Street; thence parallel with Vine Street to the
Schuylkill River.
The meaning of this was, that whilst the upper boundary of the district took a course from Sixth Street west by north to Broad Street, the line beyond the latter ran due east and west to the
Schuylkill. It extended by the course of that river to Vine Street, and along the latter to Broad, where it met the old district line. By this addition the size of Spring Garden was more than doubled. At the time of consolidation the area of the district was estimated to be 1100 acres (4.5 km²).
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