Between philadelphia and mt. Vernon for a not very president ial reason. With us now is lee around ornol senior director of the library and collections and chief operating officer. Thanks so much for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Youre the historical person forgo to facts. Im happy to be here. Ive been with the Historical Society for 24 years and tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people even locals dont know a lot of the history of their own city and area. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia and that it was first founded by william penn, a quaker. You already mentioned early that race street used to be called sasa frasthe east west trees were named for trees and north south after numbers and philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and public quar system in the United States and also first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers systemically. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of
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