Rowlandville was a

North Philadelphia North Philadelphia, nicknamed North Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is immediately north of Center City, Philadelphia, Center City. Though the full extent of the region is somewhat vague, "North Philadelphia" is regarded as ...

neighborhood along the

Tacony Creek Frankford Creek is a minor tributary of the Delaware River in southeast Pennsylvania. It derived its name from today's Frankford, Philadelphia neighborhood. The stream originates as Tookany Creek at Hill Crest in Cheltenham Township and meanders ...

near present-day Wyoming Avenue. The name Rowlandville is no longer used; the neighborhood has been absorbed into present-day Juniata Park and Feltonville. It was bounded by Feltonville to the east/northeast, Juniata Park and Golf Course to the south, Greenwood Cemetery and Tacony Creek Park to the north and Frankford to the east. It was formed about where the

Wingohocking Creek Wingohocking Creek was once a major tributary of another Philadelphia, Pennsylvania stream, Frankford Creek, which flows into the Delaware River. Frankford Creek was formed by the confluence of Wingohocking Creek and Tacony Creek (sections of wh ...

merges with the Tacony Creek.

Fisher's Lane Bridge Fisher's Lane Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge that carries Fisher's Lane west of Ramona Avenue across Tacony Creek in Tacony Creek Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is ...

still stands near the center of the neighborhood.

History

Early settlement concentrated about a saw manufacturer here, a paper mill and a wagon-spring manufacturer. Founded in 1732, The Rowland Company was the brainchild of Benjamin Rowland, "a descendant of John Rowland who arrived in America with William Penn in 1682." As the "oldest continuing company" in Pennsylvania, it is the third oldest in the country. William Rowland (1780-1857) had a mill saw factory on the Tacony Creek in 1843. Sons of Benjamin Rowland named their concern The William and Harvey Rowland Company, which succeeded into the 19th century. They made wagon and coach springs. There was also the Benjamin Rowland shovel factory located on Tacony Creek that made spades as well. It was under Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Thomas Rowland and Thomas Rowland, Jr., as well. A school was erected here in 1846 that was used by the Philadelphia school board in 1886 until the erection of the Rolandville School nearby in 1891. Another schoolhouse was erected in 1889 at Fishers Lane & Wyoming Avenue. Campbell's ''Old Towns and Districts of Philadelphia'' states:

Rowlandville lay along Fisher lane and the Tacony creek, under the Wyoming avenue viaduct, north of the junction with the Wingohocking creek. The Rowlands of Milltown (now Cheltenham) established the manufacture of wagon springs here in 1842; the factory, operated for years by William and Harvey Rowland, is gone, but Fisher lane still runs to the east, crossing the Tacony by a stone bridge (1796), and leading up the hill to Ramona avenue, near the Sears-Roebuck store. Wyoming Villa was near D and Wyoming avenue, at a point where Fisher lane ran north and south, northeast of Greenmount cemetery.

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{{reflist North Philadelphia Neighborhoods in Philadelphia