Holmesburg, Philadelphia

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title: Holmesburg, Philadelphia
text: Holmesburg began as a Village within Lower Dublin Township, Pennsylvania. It is now a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Holmesburg was named in Honor of Surveyor General of Pennsylvania Thomas Holme, who was a cartographer. The Surveyor General had no apparent business relationship or blood kinship to one John Holme, a Baptist minister and magistrate who immigrated to Philadelphia in the 1680s from New Jersey. John Holme's descendants were land s
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description: Neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesburg,_Philadelphia
date created: 2005-07-04T14:32:12Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T19:25:35Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Saint-Dominic-Frankford-Avenue.jpg","width":1920,"height":2420}
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