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Philadelphia Timeline, 1842

January 20. Celebration of the opening of; the Reading and Pottsville Railroad.
August 1. Abolition Riots. African Presbyterian Church, St. Mary's Street, and Smith's Hall, Lombard Street, burned.
August 26. Reading Railroad bridge and the old bridge at the Falls of Schuylkill destroyed by fire.
Ground purchased at the southeast corner of Fifth Street and Franklin Avenue (Girard Avenue) for the erection of a German Catholic Church. Purchase price $11,700.

Excerpted from "Happenings in ye Olde Philadelphia 1680-1900" by Rudolph J. Walther, 1925, Walther Printing House, Philadelphia, PA