Philadelphia's Lost Waterfront (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Over time, though, it became a more formal thoroughfare, thanks to Stephen Girard. STEPHEN GIRARD’S WILL (III OF III) Girard specified in his will that a wide boulevard should be constructed along the Delaware: XXII. *** 1. To lay out, regulate, curb, light and pave a passage or street, on the east part of the city of Philadelphia, fronting the river Delaware, not less than twenty-one feet wide, and to be called Delaware Avenue, extending from Vine to Cedar [South] street, all along the east part of Water street squares, and the west side of the logs, which form the heads of the docks, or thereabouts;…to compel the owners of wharves to keep them clean, and covered completely with gravel or other hard materials, and to be so levelled that water will not remain thereon after a shower of rain; to completely clean and keep clean all the docks within the limits of the city, fronting on the Delaware. Delaware Avenue in 1898, before its last widening, looking south at Walnut Street. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s freight depot is on the right; its wharves are on the left.
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