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| • | Frankford is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, situated about 6 miles northeast of Center City.
Founded in the mid- to late 1600s by German settlers, the name of the village was very likely derived from the title of the Franckfort Company, which took up ground there, along what is now known as Frankford Creek. It was an early suburb of the town of Philadelphia. William Penn forged a trail through the village that would run from Center City up to New York City, passing through Bucks County, the location of his governor's mansion, Pennsbury Manor. That trail would come to be known as "Frankford Pike" (later Frankford Avenue) and was the town's main street. The village was incorporated into a borough in 1800 and in 1854, the village was included in the boundaries of the city of Philadelphia.
Today, Frankford is primarily a residential neighborhood. Philadelphia's public transportation company, SEPTA, has one of its main bus depots there and the Frankford Transportation Center is the neighborhood's mass transit hub. SEPTA's elevated train, the Market-Frankford Line (the "El"), also runs through the neighborhood, offering train service to Center City and West Philadelphia.
Although its borders are disputed, the neighborhood runs from Frankford Creek to the Roosevelt Boulevard, to Cheltenham Avenue, to the Delaware River, to the banks of the old Frankford Creek to the present-day Frankford Creek. Adjacent neighborhoods include Bridesburg, Juniata, Oxford Circle, Mayfair, and Wissinoming.
Although it was originally founded by German settlers, the neighborhood today includes a wide variety of peoples, including a large number of Italians, Polish, Irish, African Americans and Hispanics.
One of Philadelphia's earliest Catholic Churches, Saint Joachim's, was built here in 1845.
Philadelphia neighborhoods
Source: [wikipedia: frankford, philadelphia]
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