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On the new town of Manayunk, Pennsylvania...
On the new town of Manayunk, Pennsylvania...
Item # 715570
December 01, 1827
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Dec. 1, 1827
* "Flat Rock" becomes Manayunk, Philadelphia
Page 2 has an interesting article headed: "Manayunk", previously known as Flat Rock, which is a nice article on this town just north of Philadelphia.
It notes: "This new village at 'Flat Rock' on the Schuylkill, near Phila., has five cotton mills...employing 525 hands--a grist mill..." with much more on the cotton mills there. It closes with: "...All these establishments are the work of a short period of time. About six years ago there was only a toll house there--now between 2 and 3,000 inhabitants and a large town, daily increasing."
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/2 inches, nice condition.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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