TPPM (9): Philadelphia

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Philadelphia, by Franklin's time, answered less and less to the religious vision that William Penn had started off with. The city was becoming a kind of high-output machine, materials and labor going in, goods and services coming out, traffic inside flowing briskly about a grid of regular city blocks." [...]


http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/

http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/philadelphia.html

http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/phil/philhistory.html#EconomicHistory

Also see:

http://www.philadelphiahistory.org/

http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=111

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