Tacony Creek

Tacony Creek is a stream in Montgomery County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Tacony Creek is situated nearby to the neighborhood Cedar Grove, as well as near Feltonville.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Friends Hospital and Olney station.

Friends Hospital

Hospital

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Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1813 by Quakers as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane.

Olney station

Railway station

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Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line.

Clara Barton School

School

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Clara Barton School is a historic school building located in the Feltonville neighborhood of Philadelphia. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1924–1925.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Feltonville and Crescentville.

Feltonville

Neighborhood

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Feltonville is a working-class neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located east of Logan and Hunting Park, west of Lawncrest and Juniata, south of Olney, and north of Fairhill and Harrowgate.

Crescentville

Neighborhood

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Crescentville is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, United States. It is located in the vicinity of Adams, Rising Sun, and Tabor Avenues. The name Crescentville is thought to be derived from the Crescentville Rope Factory that once stood along the Tookany Creek watershed.

Northwood

Neighborhood

Northwood, an area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.

Tacony Creek

Type: Stream
Also known as: “Big Taconey Creek”, “Taoconik”, “Tekony Creek”, “Toaconinck”, and “Tookany Creek”
Category: body of water
Location: Montgomery County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.02706° or 40° 1′ 37″ north

Longitude

-75.11267° or 75° 6′ 46″ west

Elevation

69 feet (21 metres)

Open location code

87G62VGP+RW

GeoNames ID

5215120

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ziehler Playground and Olney High School.

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