River in the 1600s, the dutch es, fins and swedes moved in. Colors of the philadelphia flag are blue and gold, that is colors of the flag of sweden. Reporter doctor lee arnold is direct of library and collections at Historical Society of pennsylvania and says this sit has quite a story to tell. I dont think there is any other city in the United States that can come near philadelphia for its history, or its importance within the nation. Reporter in 1682, a proud quaker named william penn founded philadelphia he put two greek word together. Penn wanted philadelphia to be an inclusive city, penn, in pennsylvania isnt even named after penn seen at top of the city hall since 18934. He is now being cleaned for his once in a decade tune up, the state of pennsylvania is named after another william penn, his father, admiral wilson men. King charles the second owed the admiral money and gifted him land. Pennsylvania. Doctor arnold gave us a look at William Penns personal letters. In one he wrote
River in the 1600s, the dutch es, fins and swedes moved in. Colors of the philadelphia flag are blue and gold, that is colors of the flag of sweden. Reporter doctor lee arnold is direct of library and collections at Historical Society of pennsylvania and says this sit has quite a story to tell. I dont think there is any other city in the United States that can come near philadelphia for its history, or its importance within the nation. Reporter in 1682, a proud quaker named william penn founded philadelphia he put two greek word together. Penn wanted philadelphia to be an inclusive city, penn, in pennsylvania isnt even named after penn seen at top of the city hall since 18934. He is now being cleaned for his once in a decade tune up, the state of pennsylvania is named after another william penn, his father, admiral wilson men. King charles the second owed the admiral money and gifted him land. Pennsylvania. Doctor arnold gave us a look at William Penns personal letters. In one he wrote
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
Rotated his slaves between philadelphia and mount vernon for a not very president ial reason . Hes also a chief operating officer. Dr. Arnold, thank you very much for joining us. You are the goto person for pennsylvania facts. Ive been with the Historical Society for over 24 years. Im also a tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people, even locals, dont know a lot of the history of their own city. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia, founded by william penn and william penn was a quaker. Part of that is street names. Ray street used to be called sassafras. The east west streets were named after trees and the north south streets were named after numbers. Philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and Public Square system in the United States and were also the first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of his quaker philosophy. Theyre the plain people. You
The defribillator happened to be three blocks away. His brother jim sees no other explanation other than divine intervention. Right people were there at the right time and knew what to do and acted, saved my brother, and gave him an opportunity to come back. Reporter brandon had to stay in the coma for 36 hours. Friend and family asked if he saw white light or heard from god. He said not exactly but. When i did come too, i had an overwhelming euphoric feeling of love. Reporter and father of three has a new lease on life especially for raising up his fiveyear old son, desmond. I think, the big man upstairs, likes me. Reporter he wasnt ready for you yet. Not my time just yet. I have other things to do i guess. Reporter and, we want to thank desmonds mother lauren for letting us know about this story, and she said it is a whole other miracle, that he wasnt home with their son when all of this happened. Live from cape may, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News it is incredible. Thanks very muc