Newly released, “Frankford Heroes, 2nd Edition”, written by Bob Smiley and Richard Johnson, takes us from a small 17th Century village in Philadelphia county to a 21st Century neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia, PA. Frankford has a long history of proud military service. This new edition has the stories 190 brave men and women, 147 of them would not return from war.
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that building was a gun powdermill during the revoutionary war…the new homes at castor and wingohocking
are named after the powdermill…they are called the twins at the powdermill.
Yeah Cino’s, i used to sell flowers on the corner for old man Pop.
Wow. That is pretty amazing they only removed part of the building. The newer brick wall is really badly integrated with the old building. Actually it’s pretty amazing they would go through all that trouble and not make it look it at all nice. At least they put in windows. Any idea what it was used for in 1950?
Wingohocking St. used to call Powdermill Lane. Stephen Decatur, hero of the Barbary war against pirates, had an estate here. A 1920’s source says it was across from the new (!) municipal golf course at Juniata. Decatur was killed in 1820 in a duel of honor in Washington, DC.