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37-561: For many years, the route was called Old York Road , as it was the principal route from Philadelphia to New York City . Originally, the Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge was a covered toll bridge of wood construction was located at the former site of Reading's Ferry. First built in 1814 as a covered bridge with six spans and a total length of 821 feet built under contract by Capt. Pelig Kingsley and Benjamin Lord. The construction

74-512: A Lenni-Lenape word for "the grove of long pine trees." This was also the name of a nearby Lenape village. Accounts vary, but Cohoquinoque Creek arose around the present-day intersection of Fifteenth and Spring Garden Streets (and perhaps as far north as Fairmount Avenue) and was also fed by a well-known spring in the Spring Garden district near present-day Ninth Street. The creek was later primarily known as Pegg's Run . Willow Street,

111-647: A Quaker brickmaker who once possessed nearly all of the Northern Liberties south of Cohocksink Creek. Pegg in 1686 acquired three hundred and fifty acres of marshy ground in that area from one Jurian Hartsfelder, who held a patent on the land dating back years before the arrival of William Penn . (The land along the Delaware River that became Philadelphia was under Swedish control from 1638 to 1655, when it passed to Dutch control, and then English control in 1664.) Accounts vary as to when Pegg's Run

148-512: A pattern that is common for naming old roads, some sections of the oldest road route road still exist in a few areas, each with a name beginning "Old", in this case Old York Road. This occurs in the village of Hartsville, which sits astride the border of Warminster and Warwick Township as well as the village of Bridge Valley in Buckingham , about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of where PA 263/York Road joins US 202 . An 8-arch stone bridge over

185-554: A rare curvilinear street in the older part of Philadelphia, is wavy because it follows the course of the old stream. For centuries, Cohoquinoque Creek has often been confused with Cohocksink Creek , which is about a mile to the north. At one time, Cohoquinoque Creek was navigable by small boats from the Delaware, and farm products were floated on flat boats for sale in Philadelphia. Rowers could even make their way up as far as

222-495: Is now Cranford , it passed along what is now Lincoln Avenue, past Droeschers Mill . Much of the road from there to Elizabethtown was eliminated, though parts survive as Colonia Road and Jersey Avenue. A ferry left from Elizabethtown Point in Elizabeth to Holland's Hook (now Port Ivory ) on Staten Island beginning in 1736 by Adoniah Schuyler. Holland Hook was named for the early settlers, who came from Holland , but later

259-604: The Neshaminy Creek , built in 1804, still stands on Old York Road in Bridge Valley, but was only open to pedestrian and bicycle traffic since that section of road was bypassed by the 4-lane York Road in 1965 until the bridge was closed to foot traffic by a cyclone fence at each end in 2010. The section of PA 263/York Road from Sugar Bottom Rd. to PA 413 in Buckingham Twp. was resurfaced in 2008-09 for

296-485: The New Hope-Lambertville Bridge , into New Jersey. The original bridge was built in 1814 and replaced twice after floods. The newest bridge was built in 1904 and provides the closest route to the original Old York Road. Ferry Street ends at the location of the first ferry dock of John Wells. In 1719, John Wells was given a license to establish a ferry at this location, two years after he bought

333-642: The 1850s, the entire line became part of the Reading Railroad . When the East Callowhill Street district was cleared for urban redevelopment in the late 1960s (i.e., the Callowhill East Urban Renewal Area project), the tracks were removed but the sewer remained. This is why Willow Street itself was not removed when the other streets in the district were. The sewer flows into the Delaware River at what

370-683: The Naraticong tribe, who permitted the road to be built over their trail, is located at the intersection of Old York Road and Canal in Raritan, New Jersey . The Swift Sure Stage Coach Line completed the journey between the two cities in two days. A ferry left Elizabethtown Point for New York City , or passengers could continue onto Newark, New Jersey and ultimately Powles Hook Ferry in present day Exchange Place in Jersey City via Bergen Point Plank Road / Newark Plank Road . Old York Road

407-1061: The New Jersey side began to be known as Coryell's Ferry. The original route followed Main Street to York Street and briefly joined with New Jersey Route 179 , the modern Old York Road. It continues on NJ 179 with three deviations, including one at Mount Airy, before crossing under US 202. NJ 179 ends in Ringoes and Old York Road continues on the beginning of County Route 514 . At Reaville in East Amwell , Old York Road leaves CR 514 and joins CR 613 . CR 613 continues through Three Bridges and ends at Pleasant Run Road in Centerville in Readington , but Old York Road continues across it and crosses US 202 in Branchburg . Centerville

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444-644: The Old York Road traveled through Middlesex on modern Raritan Avenue, Union Avenue, Harris Avenue, and William Street, which brought the route to Quibbletown (now New Market) in Piscataway . It then turned north on New Market Road, then roughly followed Front Street to The Plains and Scotch Plains . From there it went to West Fields by Park Avenue, Westfield Avenue, Westfield Road, North Scotch Plains Avenue, and West Broad Street, and to Cranes Ford by Benson Place, 4th Avenue, and North Avenue. In what

481-405: The bridges over their respective ditches. The flood of January 8, 1841, carried away three spans, two piers and the stone toll-house all on the New Jersey side. It was only one of many bridges between Easton , Pennsylvania and Trenton , New Jersey , that was destroyed in the flood. However, the Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge was rebuilt well enough to be one of the few bridges not washed away by

518-420: The contents of the gutters of the numerous populous streets and alleys it crosses, and two culverts from the city also open into it. Along its borders are situated a number of manufactories of glue, starch, dressed skins, and soap. About fifty slaughter-houses, and the privies of most of the adjoining dwellings, the refuse, fermentable and putrescent matters of which are all emptied into its stream. Except during

555-695: The contents of two culverts, of a large number of privies, and of the gutters of the numerous populous streets and alleys it crosses, it became highly offensive, and the source of noxious exhalations. This stream, which plays a conspicuous part in the history of one of the epidemics, and was correctly pronounced the greatest nuisance in Philadelphia, attracted finally the attention of the public and council, and has since been culverted. --From René La Roche, Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and Therapeutical Relations... (Blanchard and Lea, 1855), at 27-28. ...[I]n reference to

592-532: The development in Duke Street, (then Artillery Lane,) Northern Liberties, he alludes to its proximity to what was called in a petition of that time, "the greatest nuisance in Philadelphia," Pegg's Run, and describes it "as an open culvert or common sewer, passing through the closely built parts of Penn Township, Spring Garden, and the Northern Liberties, to the River Delaware. In its course, it receives

629-419: The famous Spring Garden spring. In the 1780s, a bridge (Poole's or Pool's bridge) was built over the stream at Front Street and citizens were proud of this early structure. The land on both sides was low and swampy, and several people straying from the causeway lost their lives in the mud. There were sluices under the causeway to permit free flowing of water. The name Pegg’s Run was derived from Daniel Pegg,

666-487: The first time since the 1965 widening, and the section through Warwick Township was scheduled to be repaved in 2010–11, but as of the autumn of 2012, that repaving had not yet taken place. In Lahaska , Old York Road follows US-202 as Lower York Road. Old York Road follows PA 179 into New Hope , as Bridge Street. It deviates briefly and rejoins PA 179. The road forks ahead, with Ferry Street going southeast and Bridge Street going northeast. Bridge Street carries PA 179 across

703-511: The flood of October 10, 1903. In 1923, the bridge was twice damaged by fire and then on July 22, 1923, lightning struck the bridge and the resulting fire totally destroyed the structure. For two years after the disaster, the Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge saw no repairs. Eventually, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission gained control of the remnants of the bridge, and began rebuilding upon

740-600: The heavy rains, or immediately after them, the stream is barely sufficient to carry along, with a sluggish current, the mass of decomposing, offensive substances that compose it, for in fact, it seems more like liquid mud than water." --From Report of the Philadelphia Relief Committee Appointed to Collect Funds for the Sufferers by Yellow Fever, At Norfolk & Portsmouth, Va., 1855 (Inquirer Printing Office, 1856), at 27-28. (Most of

777-572: The intersection with North Broad Street and Oak Lane in the neighborhood East Oak Lane in North Philadelphia . Old York Road (known as York Road north of the border between Abington Twp. and Upper Moreland Twp. in Willow Grove ) deviates from PA 611 at the intersection with Easton Road in Willow Grove , where it begins to run concurrently with PA 263 , which is still named York Road (not Old York Road). From there north, with

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814-540: The land. The Pennsylvania Assembly eventually gave John Wells sole right to operate a ferry from this spot after Thomas Canby attempted to compete with the service. The small village became known as Well's Ferry. Thomas Canby's son, Benjamin later bought the ferry service from Wells. In 1764, John Coryell, who operated a ferry from New Jersey bought the Pennsylvania ferry service from Benjamin Canby. The village later had

851-648: The language within this quote was taken from an article entitled "An Account of the Yellow or Malignant Fever Which Appeared in the City of Philadelphia in the Summer and Autumn of 1820 with Observations on That Disease," by Dr. Samuel Jackson, beginning on page 313 of volume 1 of The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences (1820), at page 355.) After the sewer was built, the tanners and other industries along

888-482: The metal grating, and both feature recordings of the bridge and river. Old York Road Old York Road , originally York Road , with reference to New York, is a roadway that was built during the 18th century to connect Philadelphia with New York City . The road was built along the Raritan tribe's Naraticong Trail, also known as the Tuckaraming Trail. A memorial plaque to the friendship of

925-523: The name evolved to Howland Hook. Source: Cawley & Cawley List of Philadelphia placename etymologies#Old York Road 40°03′43″N 75°08′10″W  /  40.062°N 75.136°W  / 40.062; -75.136 Willow Street, Philadelphia The Cohoquinoque Creek was formerly a stream running west to east through the Callowhill neighborhood in Philadelphia , along

962-493: The names of Canby's Ferry and Coryell's Ferry before receiving the name New Hope after a 1790 fire. Old York Road began at Coryell's Ferry, which was on Emanuel Coryell's property between Church Street and Swan Creek (for which Swan Street is named) in Lambertville . Although this was not the first ferry operated from the New Jersey side, Coryell purchased land here and began operating a ferry service in 1732. The village on

999-408: The rehabilitation of the Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge. For five months, the bridge was closed from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, remaining fully open only on weekends. Work done on the bridge included blast cleaning and painting the bridge truss, rehabilitating the roadway deck and sidewalk, making structural repairs, and improving road signs, railings and lighting. As of the middle of May,

1036-508: The same piers and abutments on which the first bridge had stood. Having been built higher than before, it escaped damage in the flood of 1955, which damaged many other bridges along the Delaware River. The current steel truss bridge was completed in 1926 and opened to traffic in 1927. In September 2006, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission awarded Road-Con an $ 8.4 million contract for

1073-486: The situation was: A small stream of water, called Pegg's Run, passes through a portion of the Northern Liberties and Spring Garden, which, until a few years ago, was left open and unimproved. The bottom of the stream was miry, and, at low tide and in hot and droughty weather, was often destitute of sufficient water to carry off its contents. Receiving the offals of very many slaughter-houses, lanyards, glue, starch, dressed skin, and soap manufactories adjoining it, as well as

1110-555: The southern part of Northern Liberties and immediately north of original northern boundary of Philadelphia. This small tributary of the Delaware River remains today, as a sewer, under Willow Street, which winds its way through what is sometimes called the East Callowhill Industrial District. Its name, spelled various ways (Cohoquenoque, Cohoquonoque, Cohoquinoke), is said to be derived from

1147-409: The total cost of the project was estimated to be $ 9.4 million. The fire of 1923 was depicted in a famous painting by Edward Willis Redfield who in 1898 had purchased and lived in a farm just north of the bridge. New Jersey composer Frances White has written two compositions about the bridge: Centre Bridge (1999) and Centre Bridge (dark river) (2001). Both were inspired by the sounds of traffic on

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1184-573: The unmarked alley midway between 5th and 4th Streets at Willow Street . North of Spring Garden Street, the Old York Road went through what is now lower North Philadelphia on a roadbed that is now Fifth Street. A section still named Old York Road begins at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and West Westmoreland Street in the Rising Sun/ Franklinville neighborhood of North Philadelphia . The road continues north and runs concurrently with Pennsylvania Route 611 (PA 611) at

1221-528: The way obtained entrances into it, and thus continued discharging their wastes into the covered stream and out into the nearby Delaware River. Willow Street was built on top of the culvert by 1829. Around 1834, tracks were laid on the thoroughfare by the Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad . These tracks ran from the Delaware River to Broad Street and connected to the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad tracks on Pennsylvania Avenue. In

1258-400: Was covered over and made into a city sewer. One states that the stream was covered as far west as Franklin Street (now removed) by 1811 and to Ninth Street by 1824. Whatever the case, the stream had become tremendously polluted even as early as the late 18th century, with numerous tanneries and other early Philadelphia industries located along its banks. The following accounts indicate how bad

1295-526: Was faulty and the contractors were penalized $ 1,200. One of the piers soon gave way and had to be rebuilt. In 1830, the entire bridge was reconstructed by a contractor Amos Campbell, the father of Henry Roe Campbell . At that time the Raritan feeder on the New Jersey side, and the Delaware Division canal on the Pennsylvania side had not been dug. At first, the canal companies built and maintained

1332-408: Was laid out from New Hope, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia between 1711 and 1771. Its start (or end) point was at the intersection of Fourth and Vine Streets. Motorists demanded the abolition of the road's tolls from City Line Ave to Bucks County in 1916. An urban redevelopment project during the 1960s removed most of Old York Road between Vine and Spring Garden Streets, although a remnant remains as

1369-747: Was so named because of its position between Philadelphia and New York, which made it a resting place for the coaches, which originally took two days to complete the journey. Old York Road then follows CR 637 across US 202 again and joins CR 567 until Raritan . In Raritan, it follows Somerset Street ( CR 626 ) and joins with Main St ( NJ 28 ) in Somerville . Old York Road continues to follow East Main Street, which becomes concurrent with CR 533 in Finderne in Bridgewater . After going through Bound Brook ,

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