Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy have another facinating history in this week’s Northeast Times.  I had some inkling of this story since I spent my first few years down on Plum and Wilmot Streets but they explain how all this developed.  Read it all here.  You have to roll down quite a bit since the Times online did not give them their own page.

Surfing over at phillyblog.com, I came across a post arguing where Convention Hall was located at Broad and Allegheny.  A poster referenced the Greater Philadelphia Geo History Network website.  They have as their “crown jewel” an Interactive Map Viewer with overlays of historic maps.  Very cool I must say.  Now most of the maps have old timey maps of Frankford, but they have a 1929 map of the 23rd and 41st ward with the house owners for the larger mansions and factory names written on it.  Tons of insight for the history buff.  This is filthy cool.  I could spend hours meandering through those maps.  Joe Menk, you should be all over this.  If anyone notes anything cool( like Overington Park still looking like an estate), post it in the comments.

[link] http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/index.cfm

And Jefferson too.  There was a great article last week in the Northeast Times by Dr. Harry C. Silcox and Jack McCarthy.  It tells about all the places in the Northeast that the Presidents have been.  You may be surprised to know the details.  Take a minute and read it here.

From the Northeast Times this week:

The Historical Society of Frankford is looking for a few good volunteers. Well, make that more than a few.
The society, which has existed since 1905, is in dire need of people who can donate their time to help run the historical society’s museum as well as organize and catalog it’s collections.
During a recent community meeting and forum, Jack McCarthy, the society archivist and director of planning, expressed the concern of the organization’s board members.

Read the entire story here.

Historical Society of Frankford has a new web address.  If you have previously bookmarked it, you might need to update your records.  This is it:  http://frankfordhistoricalsociety.org/index.html