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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 ....
Right now at 11 00, a family in pain, a Community Gathers to remember a teenager girl killed in a road rage shooting as the search continues for the gunman. On the virtue of a shutdown. New jersey lawmakers struggle to reach a budget deal before the midnight deadline. Let freedom ring, the long 4th of july weekend is Getting Started and cbs3 is celebrating all philadelphia has to offer. The site, the sounds the flavor of summertime. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We are rolling on with summertime right here in philadelphia. Where it all began, its the Perfect Place to celebrate the 4th of july holiday. Weve seen tons out and about and its a great night to be out. Weve got a lot in store. The history of philadelphia, whats been going on to celebrate. But everyone is talking about what the weather is ....
Started and cbs3 is celebrating all philadelphia has to offer. The site, the sounds the flavor of summertime. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We are rolling on with summertime right here in philadelphia. Where it all began, its the Perfect Place to celebrate the 4th of july holiday. Weve seen tons out and about and its a great night to be out. Weve got a lot in store. The history of philadelphia, whats been going on to celebrate. But everyone is talking about what the weather is going to be like. If youre headed to the poconos, shore, staying in the city, everybody wants to know what the forecast is. Lets go to lauren casey at spruce street harbor park. Lauren . Thanks so much, were off to a great start. Weatherwise here at spruce street harbor park im traveling with my entourage. Looking lovely. Everyone is smiles on everyones faces, were heading into a fourday holiday weekend. Everyone enjoyed the fireworks wen ....
In the afternoon. So, get ready. Hopefully you turned the ac on last night, it is a warm, and muggy morning for us this saturday. And it will be getting hot this afternoon. It will remain humid. But then we will watch for couple every thunderstorms to common later in the day. That will could maybe at least try to cool us down a little bit in the evening time frame. But it is going to get warm as we get into sunday. So again, not a comfortable Holiday Weekends, but warm Holiday Weekends, to say the least. Storm scan3, right now, not too much happening across the delaware, Lehigh Valley back into jersey it, cents a quiet start to the day for us. But you can see our cold front now out in western pennsylvania, shower, thunderstorm activity firing up in South Central new ....
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 e ....