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"Equal to a Little Gold Mine": A Preliminary Study of the Grocers of Early Port Richmond, 1842-1865 (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia arose around a crossroads village along the Delaware River, several miles north of Old City Philadelphia. With the opening of the Reading Railroad’s Port Richmond terminal in 1842, the village was transformed into a boom town with blocks of...