Powelton History Blog: A Collective Biography of a Philadelphia Neighborhood

Henry D. Justi was born in Germany in 1834, immigrated with his mother to the U.S. in 1850 and became a citizen in 1865. He didn’t just mak...

The Fourth Annual Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women met in Philadelphia in 1876. Several Powelton women were members...

There were several dozen veterans of the Civil War living in Powelton during the last decades of the nineteenth century. For these men, the...

Seen in the News (1885) Miss Lilly (or Tillie) Hart of 3527 Hamilton St. , won a prize at the Philadelphia Kennel Club show in May for her B...

Many Poweltonians know that Edmund Bacon spent his early years at 3603 Baring St. in the heart of Powelton. Bacon was a major force in ur...