One block from City Line Avenue, the Wynnefield Branch serves the communities of Wynnefield and Overbook Farms. The library is next door to the Joh...
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History:
The Women's Club of Bala Cynwyd founded the Bala Cynwyd Library in 1915. The original plan to house the library in the Academy Buil...
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HISTORY
The neighborhood had its beginning when John Rhoads received the land from William Penn. By 1847, the section between 65th and 67th Street...
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Narberth Community Library is an independent library supported by the Borough of Narberth, your donations, community organizations and businesses. ...
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About Us:
Most of the land surrounding the Overbrook Park Branch originally belonged to a French farmer and nurseryman named Francis Supinot. The ...
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History:
In 1929 an ambitious group of women collected 35 books and raised $7.00 at a Book Tea in Penn Wynne. These strong-minded women arranged t...
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About the LibraryThe mission of the Free Library of Philadelphia is to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity. Its vision is to bu...
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Nicetown was named for a group of Dutch Huguenots, who in about 1700 settled near what is now Hunting Park Avenue. Tioga centers around 20th and Ti...
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History:
Cobbs Creek was known as Karakung by the Lenni Lenape Indians and Mill Creek by Swedes in the late 1600's. It later became known as Cob...
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Mission:
The Rosenbach Museum & Library seeks to inspire curiosity, inquiry, and creativity by engaging broad audiences in exhibitions, progr...
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The beautiful two-story stone building that now houses the Gladwyne Free Library was erected in 1921, and was owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Pen...
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Ogontz is named after the Oak Lane mansion of Jay Cooke, a Civil War financier. As a young boy, he met Chief Ogontz in Ohio and later named his hom...
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With a name dating back to 1895, Point Breeze was designated as one of the original Green Countrie Towns sponsored by Philadelphia Green, a program...
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About:Located on Girard Avenue, this branch was known as the Girard Avenue Branch until 1977, when it was named for an educator and community leade...
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