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Roxborough is a predominantly white, middle class neighborhood of Philadelphia. Lower Roxborough and the Wissahickon section of the neighborhood, near East Falls, are working class. However, this economic picture is changing as Gentrification occurs in Roxborough, Manayunk, and East Falls . The commercial spine of the neighborhood is Ridge Avenue, which as its name suggests, runs along the ridge between the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River. Most businesses are located on the Ridge, and most residents are within walking distance to it. Henry Avenue runs parallel to Ridge Avenue up to Andorra. It was built in the 1930s and includes several concrete arch bridges, including one over the Wissahickon Creek where it crosses into East Falls. This bridge includes a pair of box tunnels under the roadway. The bridge was designed to carry a planned extension of the subway into Roxborough, but the subway was never extended anywhere near the bridge. Because of the Wissahickon Creek and the park which protects much of its watershed, Roxborough and Manayunk are physically separated from the rest of the city. Most of its development occurred after 1950, giving most of Roxborough a suburban character. Local news sources have been known to incorrectly refer to Roxborough as a suburb of Philadelphia. There is no official list of neighborhoods for the city. The north-west section of Roxborough is often considered a separate neighbor called Upper Roxborough . Most of Philadelphia's television and FM radio stations have their transmission towers in Roxborough because of its hilly terrain and high elevation. The area was likely named for Roxburghshire, Scotland, the original home of Andrew Robeson, one of the early settlers of what is now Roxborough. It was not named by the hermit Johannes Kelpius , leader of a millennial monastic-type group that lived along the Wissahickon, though he refers to the area as "Rocks-burrow" in a letter dated May 25, 1706. Kelpius did, however, popularize the name, as the township had also been variously known as Manatawna and Leverington. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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