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A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1683 [street name annotation]

Thomas Holme's A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia.  In 1682, William Penn appointed Holme surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and charged him with the task of laying out the "greene country towne" that Penn envisioned along the Delaware River.  The site that Penn...

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Main Author: Thomas Holme, d. 1695 (Creator)
Collection:Historical Society of Pennsylvania Treasures collection (#HSP Treasures)
Date:1683
Call Number:Of 610* 1683 H-4
Format: Electronic
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Map
Copyright:Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14140
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title A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1683 [street name annotation]
spellingShingle A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1683 [street name annotation]
Thomas Holme, d. 1695
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description Thomas Holme&#39;s <em>A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia.</em>&nbsp; In 1682, William Penn appointed Holme surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and charged him with the task of laying out the &quot;greene country towne&quot; that Penn envisioned along the Delaware River.&nbsp; The site that Penn acquired for the city of Philadelphia stretched two miles east to west across a tract of land situated between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers; all told, the rectangular grid of land comprised twelve thousand acres.&nbsp; Holme imposed an orderly grid plan on the site, with streets organized around a large square in the center of the town and four smaller squares, one in each quadrant.&nbsp; The grid also included two main streets, Broad and High (present-day Market), which were kept wide in hopes of preventing the kind of fire that destroyed London in 1666.&nbsp; Completed in 1683 <em>A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia </em>was used for both reference and promotional purposes to show the unique layout of William&#39;s Penn emerging city.
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