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By Dr. Harry C. Silcox,Frank W. Hollingsworth

prior to the Consolidation Act of 1854 greater than tripled the previous capital's inhabitants, Northeast Philadelphia used to be a scattered team of pastoral groups simply past the town limits. Holmesburg, Somerton and different small villages at the start struggled yet eventually triumphed of their transition from rural townships to a bustling city heart. Dr. Harry C. Silcox has collaborated with Frank W. Hollingsworth to chart this attention-grabbing evolution, from the death of the kinfolk farm to associates uniting at the homefront in the course of global battle II. With such full of life characters as Mary Disston, the founding mom of Tacony, and stories of the neighborhood attempt for suffrage, Silcox and Hollingsworth create an excellent and affectionate portrait of Northeast Philadelphia.

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