Bristol Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Bristol Township | |
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| Area code(s) | 215, 267, and 445 |
Bristol Township was a
City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854. It is the modern day Olney-Oak Lane Planning Analysis Section, though with a slight difference in the southern border. It is in present-day North Philadelphia
, although Olney-Oak Lane is sometimes considered to be separate from North Philadelphia entirely because of their unique architecture, culture and differing patterns of development.
History
Bristol Township was located at the north end of Philadelphia County, at the intersection of the angle which runs down from the extreme point between Philadelphia and
Germantown Borough and Germantown Township
.
The
Milestown (now East Oak Lane), and thence to Bucks County. Greatest length, five and one-half miles; greatest breadth, three miles; area, 5,650 acres (23 km2). The name is derived from the city of Bristol in England
.
Neighborhoods
- East Oak Lane
- Feltonville
- Fern Rock
- Koreatown
- Logan
- Melrose Park
- Ogontz
- Olney
- West Oak Lane
- Cedarbrook
Resources
- Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683–1854 (Daly, John; Weinberg, Allen (October 1966). Genealogy of Philadelphia County Subdivisions (Second ed.). Philadelphia Dept. of Records.)
- Information courtesy of ushistory.org
- Incorporated District, Boroughs, and Townships in the County of Philadelphia, 1854 By Rudolph J. Walther - excerpted from the book at the ushistory.org website
- Ellet, Charles, Jr. Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843.