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The Southwark Historical Society serves to collect, preserve and promote the history of Southwark, a historic district located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our mission is to educate, inform, and engage the public through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the past. The core working group of the Southwark Historical Society includes members of the Queen Village Historic Preservation Committee as well as neighbors from other civic associations. Our goal is to build and expand upon the a …
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We are dedicated to the preservation, repair, and restoration of Philadelphia's small historic streets. See list and map: HistoricCartwayInve
ntory.doc and HistoricCartwayMap.
pdf. Milner and Carr authored a special report on the 200 block of S. Jessup Street that gives a historic background to how these streets were constructed -
JessupStreetReport.pdf.
The City has a dedicated fund of $200,000 per year to repair these streets. We have been working …
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We seek to preserve, protect and restore the cemetery for past, present and future generations. We will promote the historical significance, enhance the beauty and preserve the artistic heritage of Mount Moriah Cemetery
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When Skinner wrote Walden Two in the summer of 1945, Hitler was dead, the Depression was forgotten, Russia was a trusted ally, Hiroshima hadn't been nuked, and wisps of smog seemed to be the environment's greatest threat. In that idyllic historical context, Skinner's blueprint defined "an environment in which people [would] just naturally do the things they need to do to maintain themselves (with something to spare for the future) and trust each other well, and then just naturally do a hundred …
The Auxiliary Sketchbook is a group for anyone that has an interest in architecture, is in need of a creative outlet and is able to play well with others... The group will meet on the last Sunday of the month for a total of 4 months leading up to an Art Exhibition in September. (The Art Expo will be held in Old City Philadelphia) During the sketch sessions, we will be given a short tour and brief historic overview of the buildings or spaces by my friend (and soon to be yours) Michael Spain. Whil …
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