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Free Philly Family Fun

Posted on May 26, 2014 by admin

Free things to do in and around Philadelphia:

Historic Shawmont Station

Posted on May 23, 2014 by admin

Historic Shawmont Station in Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA.

1850 - Flat Rock Bridge — 1850 – Flat Rock Bridge

1857 - Inventor, Thomas Shaw — 1857 – Inventor, Thomas Shaw

1873

Ridge avenue Railway 1874

1909 - Shawmont Station, 1914 — 1909 – Shawmont Station, 1914

1916 - Canal locks at Flat Rock Dam — 1916 – Canal locks at Flat Rock Dam

Shawmont Station, 1929

1940 - Recreational boating along the canal — 1940 – Recreational boating along the canal

1950 - Reading Railroad's Shamokin Express passing Shawmont — 1950 – Reading Railroad’s Shamokin Express passing Shawmont

1960 - Pennsylvania Railroad's Shawmont Station (demolished) — 1960 – Pennsylvania Railroad’s Shawmont Station (demolished)

Shawmont Station 1974

1991 - Shawmont's waiting room — 1991 – Shawmont’s waiting room

2008 - Shawmont Station today — 2008 – Shawmont Station today

2013 - Inside Shawmont Station — 2013 – Inside Shawmont Station

2014 - What Shawmont Station may have looked like as a country home in 1826 — 2014 – What Shawmont Station may have looked like as a country home in 1826

1826: Nathan Nathan's house — 1826: Nathan Nathan’s house

1832 - Baldwin's "Old Ironsides" — 1832 – Baldwin’s “Old Ironsides”

1833 - 1st Railroad Bridge Over Wissahickon Creek — 1833 – 1st Railroad Bridge Over Wissahickon Creek

Manayunk's first train station from 1834 — Manayunk’s first train station from 1834

1835

1836

1827 - Schuylkill Navigation Co. Map — 1827 – Schuylkill Navigation Co. Map

PA School Stabbings

Posted on April 9, 2014 by admin

Murrysville, Pennsylvania — 20 people at Franklin Regional Senior High School were stabbed by a student. Many of the wounded didn’t even know what had happened. “They just felt pain and noticed they were bleeding,” said Dr. Timothy VanFleet, chief of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.