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Exactly three hundred years after Penn founded Philadelphia, work began on refurbishing two abandoned municipal piers at Penn's Landing for residential use. The rehabilitation of Piers 3 and 5 North was the first new housing on the Delaware River in over a hundred years.
- Welcome to Pier 3 Condominium - History of the Neighborhood
Brief History of Delaware Avenue (Columbus Blvd.) and the...
- Welcome to Pier 3 Condominium - History of the Neighborhood
1 kwi 2011 · One of the last components of the project was the construction of Piers 3 and 5 North in 1922-23. These two new piers were constructed on the site of several aging wooden wharves built in the 19th century with money that had been left to the city by Stephen Girard.
History of Pier 3. The Piers at Penn's Landing. In 1907, the City of Philadelphia established the Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries as a division of its Department of Commerce to meet the needs of the city's growing foreign, inter-coastal, coastal and Delaware River trade.
The Port of Philadelphia is located on the Delaware River in Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Generally the term applies to the publicly owned marine terminals located within Philadelphia city limits along the west bank of the river.
The piers were built in 1923 as part of a longrange port improvement scheme initiated in 1907, a scheme which also included the dredging of the Delaware River to a depth of 35 feet from the sea to Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia, and the building of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
Brief History of Delaware Avenue (Columbus Blvd.) and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Piers 3 and 5 were at the center of port activities along Philadelphia 's river district at the time of their construction and afterwards, from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Delaware Avenue originated in the late eighteenth century as an irregular footpath built atop filled-up docks and wharves that had outlived their usefulness. It became a more formal thoroughfare as a result of $500,000 left to the city of Philadelphia by wealthy merchant Stephen Girard (1750-1831).
