Wood Street Riverbank Steps

Wood Street Riverbank Steps is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 2013.

323 N Front St., between Vine & Callowhill Sts., Philadelphia

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The steps here are the only surviving example of ten passageways along the original Delaware River bank commissioned by William Penn in the early 1700s. Providing public access to the river wharves, the steps promoted transportation, commerce, and westward expansion in Pa.

TodayHistorical map

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Historical maps covering this location

1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1944 · 1944 Philadelphia Transportation Company street car, bus and subway-elevated lines route… (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1979 · Important farmlands, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Penn State University Libraries)
1995 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
[Philadelphia and neighborhood]. (Library of Congress)

Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering the location of Wood Street Riverbank Steps, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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