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  • Thumbnail for Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
    Tinicum Township, also known as Tinicum Island or The Island, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,091 at...
    16 KB (1,216 words) - 00:04, 27 June 2024
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    Delaware near what is now Salem, New Jersey, and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island. Printz built his manor house, The Printzhof, at Fort Nya Gothenborg...
    42 KB (4,247 words) - 18:49, 4 July 2024
  • Sassafras Island Shad Island Shelley Island Sicily Island Sixmile Island Sycamore Island Three Mile Island Tinicum Island Turkey Island Twelvemile Island Upper...
    18 KB (862 words) - 20:10, 9 May 2024
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    witch bottle, the artifact was recovered during excavations on Great Tinicum Island in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. A mid-19th to early 20th-century slave...
    13 KB (1,683 words) - 21:29, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
    Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is a 1000-acre (4.05 km2) National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia and Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania. Adjacent...
    17 KB (1,674 words) - 23:04, 25 July 2024
  • after 19 years, this website has closed down. Nothing has been done except for studies. Solomons Island Cycling Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Photos...
    16 KB (1,726 words) - 16:42, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Penn State Forest
    tracts: 10 acres (4 ha) in Lancaster County; 200 acres (81 ha) on Little Tinicum Island in the Delaware River in Delaware County; and 602 acres (244 ha) of...
    11 KB (1,020 words) - 01:42, 6 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hog Island, Philadelphia
    Hog Island is the historic name of an area southeast of Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Delaware River, to the west of the mouth...
    8 KB (707 words) - 16:39, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Philadelphia
    ten-year rule, the administrative center of New Sweden was moved north to Tinicum Island, to the immediate southwest of present-day Philadelphia, where he built...
    95 KB (11,576 words) - 05:47, 25 July 2024
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    Creek Gorge Lebo Red Pine Little Juniata Little Mud Pond Swamp Little Tinicum Island Lower Jerry Run Marion Brooks M.K. Goddard/Wykoff Run Meeting of the...
    36 KB (3,713 words) - 21:14, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church
    1845, designed by Samuel Sloan. The congregation was established on Tinicum Island in 1646. It moved to its present site in 1677, five years before the...
    12 KB (1,096 words) - 22:54, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tinicum Island Rear Range Light
    The Tinicum Island Rear Range Light is a lighthouse located in the Billingsport section of Paulsboro in Gloucester County, New Jersey, the rear of a pair...
    8 KB (557 words) - 23:08, 25 July 2024
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    Delaware River. The Swedish governor at the time had a bathhouse on Tinicum Island. Today sauna culture enjoys its greatest popularity in the Lake Superior...
    72 KB (8,833 words) - 21:20, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flight 93 National Memorial
    Creek Gorge Lebo Red Pine Little Juniata Little Mud Pond Swamp Little Tinicum Island Lower Jerry Run Marion Brooks M.K. Goddard/Wykoff Run Meeting of the...
    37 KB (3,559 words) - 13:32, 2 August 2024
  • Creek, to which the river channel is 30 feet (9.1 m). Tinicum Island Rear Range Light and Tinicum Front Range Light, known as the Billingsport Front Light...
    63 KB (5,695 words) - 18:52, 14 May 2024
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    and refers to the river's confluence with the Delaware River at League Island, which was nearly hidden by dense vegetation. This name has traditionally...
    33 KB (3,364 words) - 02:34, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Castle County, Delaware
    (Christina River), to Sankikans (Trenton Falls). Printz settled on Tinicum Island, as the seat of government and capital of the New Sweden colony. Peter...
    48 KB (4,567 words) - 20:35, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johan Björnsson Printz
    Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware, and Fort New Gothenburg on Tinicum Island (to the immediate SW of today's Philadelphia). He thus secured a monopoly...
    10 KB (1,194 words) - 12:13, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Pennsylvania state forest natural areas
    (74 ha) Encompasses a boreal swamp. Little Tinicum Island Natural Area William Penn Delaware 80 acres (32 ha) An island in the Delaware River. Lower Jerry Run...
    22 KB (734 words) - 14:37, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allegheny Islands State Park
    Allegheny Islands State Park is a 43-acre (17 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Harmar Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The...
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