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Penn District is a defunct District that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania . The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City Of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act Of Consolidation, 1854 . HISTORY Penn District, was a portion of the Penn Township which was north of the north boundary-line of Spring Garden between Delaware, Sixth Street and the Schuylkill River and between a line parallel with Hickory Lane (formerly Coates Street, now Fairmont Avenue), west of Sixth Street as far as Broad Street , and then due west to the Schuylkill, and along the same to a line parallel with, and at a distance of one hundred feet north of Susquehanna Avenue, and thence to the middle of the sixth Street. It was created a district by Act of the Assembly on February 26 , 1844 , as "the Commissioners and Inhabitants of the district of Penn". RESOURCES
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