Top: View of North Marshall Street, looking north from Poplar Street; Bottom: Pushcarts mural on 900 block of N. Marshall Street, between Poplar and Girard
What’s in a name?? Today, my old neighborhood is considered a part of Northern Liberties, but when I lived on the 900 block of North Marshall Street, the boundary of Northern Liberties was from Front and Girard west to 6th Street and south to Spring Garden Street. We never knew what our area was called. North Central Philadelphia was an easy answer. In doing research at the Library Company of Philadelphia, I found a map that listed a small area from 6th Street to Broad as Penn’s Land. Did that make it different from Penn’s Woods which is the meaning of Pennsylvania?
