Holmesburg, Philadelphia
Holmesburg is a neighborhood in the Near North District East ( Inner north-east) of the U.S. metropolis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It lies about 15 kilometers northeast of the city center. The place is named after the discoverer of Pennsylvania and confidant of William Penn, Thomas Holme, named and is one of the oldest settlements in Pennsylvania. The district has become known in the 20th century mainly by its prisons. The zip code is 19136th
The district is located on a hill southwest of the Pennypack Creek about two kilometers above its confluence with the Delaware. The main roads are the Frankford Avenue and Rhawn Street, which intersect at right angles in the former settlement core. The boundaries of the district form the Pennypack in the north, the Delaware in the Southeast and Sheffield Avenue in the southwest. The border to the northeast Torresdale is rather blurred. As a possible boundary lines of the Pennypack or about 1.5 km further extending Academy Road apply. For the latter demarcation speak the Holmesburg Shopping Center and the prisons, which are mostly on the side of the Torresdaler Pennypack.
Holmesburg is located on the site which was once earmarked as the site for the Quaker capital Philadelphia. After William Penn had in 1681 received the Pennsylvania today for his Quaker colonies, he sent his confidant Thomas Holmes there on a reconnaissance trip. This suggested that hill before as the site of Penn's capital Philadelphia. The location just above the spring tide of the Delaware would have protected the colony before the flood and made accessible year-round by boat. To this end, the core settlement would have been on a rise, which was surrounded on three sides by Pennypack Creek. Penn but has preferred to build his city further down the Delaware to its present location. In gratitude for his services but Holmes was selected by him of land and founded in that place Holmesburg.
The ever- important street of the village is the Frankford Avenue. She was part of the route New York - Philadelphia - Wilmington, the. Was once important trading route on the East Coast that led here above the floodplain of the Delaware over the Pennypack Creek The importance of this route already demanded the end of the 17th century, the construction of a fortified river crossing. The 1697 finished arch bridge is the oldest stone bridge in the United States. It is a historical monument since 1997 and is still in operation.
The main thoroughfare is Interstate 95, which runs along the banks of the Delaware. There are in the area Holmesburg two exits, one at the Cottman Avenue in the southwest and one at the Academy Road in Northeast. The Holmesburg Junction Station is located on the Northeast Corridor in the Bustleton branch of the Branch, a freight railroad of the former Pennsylvania Railroad. The station is served by regional trains SEPTA R7 Trenton Line Chestnut Hill East. The journey time to the city center is about 30 minutes. The planned connection to Philadelphia Elevated Railway, the Market - Frankford Line, was not realized.
Holmesburg is the location of all the prisons of Philadelphia. The first detention center by the name of Holmesburg Prison was opened in 1896 at Torresdale Avenue. It was replaced in 1995 by the Curran -From Hold Correctional Facility ( CFCF ). In the second half of the 20th century more stations were added, the Detention Center, the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (PICC ), the Riverside Correctional Facility and the Alternative and Special Detention 's Central Unit. These plants are located south-east of State Road right on the Delaware.