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Recorders Index. Archives Fees. Previous Announcements. It has been augmented by the staff of the Philadelphia City Archives. Adelphi Along Indian Run, about 2 miles north of Haddington. Named for the European principality. Settled by David Callahan. The former name is taken from the Native tumanaramingo, or "wolf walk"; the latter from a nearby creek.

Located between Northern Liberties and Bridesburg. Art Museum Area See Fairmount. Intersection of Monument, Falls and Ford Roads. Badlands, The Vicinity of 4th and Cambria Streets. Named by narcotics police and the media. South of Port Richmond, where Cramp's Shipyard stood. Vicinity of 56th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard. Named for the Rev. Mathias van Bebber. Named for the Belfield Mansion. Named for the extant Peters family house in Fairmount Park.

Name was applied to the almshouse erected on west bank of Schuylkill River which later became the Philadelphia General Hospital. Bridesburg Also known as Kirkbridesburg. Located along Delaware River, north of Frankford Creek, it was named for ferry operator and bridge owner, Joseph Kirkbride. Bristol One of the original townships of Philadelphia. During the reign of Tiberius the city was destroyed by an earthquake, yet it was quickly rebuilt.

Frederick Barbarossa entered it while on his crusade in Twice, in and , it was besieged by the Seljuk Turks, but it retained its independence until after , when it was captured by the combined forces of the Turks and Byzantines. In Tamerlane captured it, and, it is said, built about it a wall of the corpses of his victims. Ala-shehir is still a Christian town; one-fourth of its modern population is Greek, and a Greek bishop still makes his home there.

One of the chief modern industries is a liquorice factory; in the fields about the city the natives dig for the roots. On the terrace upon which the ancient city stood, the ruins of the castle and the walls may still be seen, and among them is pointed out the foundation of the early church.