06/19/2025
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Why is Philadelphia Pennsylvania made up of multiple neighborhoods?
Many people lived out in the far West and traveled to Philadelphia to 30th Street Station where the ships use to come in from around the world. They would unload their goods and services, sell items at the dock, ie: clothes, cheese, etc.
Lancaster Avenue was a thorough fair to the West; Known as the Old Conestoga Trail. To many, the travel was to long and many families moved closer to the water. Thus with people settling in different areas on the Conestoga Trail, they consequently, named the Villages.
Hestonville use to go all the way down to Market Street, 48th and Girard their was a Camp there before it became Cathedral Park, extended to Fairmount Park with the Heston Mansion once stood. Some 30 years later, Overbrook was founded, the PPR bought a railroad from Heston to extend the railroad West. However, in order to continue extending the Pennsylvania Rail Road, they had to go over a brook, that is how Overbrook Village received its name only after the Hestonville Village was established 30 years earlier. Contrary to the Project 2035 and multiple writings, Hestonville is not Overbrook.
