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Philadelphia Timeline, 1862

March 29. Explosion at cartridge factory of Prof. Jackson, Tenth Street near Moyamensing Avenue. Houses in vicinity shattered, seventeen persons died from injuries.
April 20. Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Logan Square, opened.
June 17. City Councils pass an ordinance appropriating $310,000 for purchase of League Island, to be presented to the United States as a naval station for construction of ironclads.
July 17. Gold eighteen and a half percent. Premium. Silver thirteen per cent. Great scarcity of specie and small change.
July 19. Postage stamps and car tickets put in circulation for small change.
September 5. Funeral of Col. John A. Koltes.
September 8. Independence Square made a recruiting camp.
September 12. Tremendous rains. Cohocksink Creek overflows. Several lives lost. Great damage in upper part of city.
October 16. Gold at thirty-seven per cent. Premium.
October 18. Destructive fire at Ninth and Market Streets.

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