Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was the first United States Navy shipyard and was historically important for nearly two centuries. Construction of the original Philadelphia Naval Shipyard began during the American Revolution in 1776 at Front and Federal Streets in what is now the Pennsport section of Philadelphia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dockyard
- Description: naval shipyard of the United States
- Also known as: “League Island Navy Yard”, “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Historic District”, “Philadelphia Navy Yard”, and “PNSY”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lincoln Financial Field and Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Lincoln Financial Field
Stadium
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Lincoln Financial Field is an American football stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is the home stadium of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the Temple Owls football team of Temple University. Lincoln Financial Field is situated 1 mile northeast of Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Xfinity Mobile Arena
Sports venue
Xfinity Mobile Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Philadelphia. It serves as the home of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League. Xfinity Mobile Arena is situated 4,200 feet north of Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Red Bank and Packer Park.
Red Bank
Hamlet
National Park is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,026, a decrease of 10 from the 2010 census count of 3,036, which in turn reflected a decline of 169 from the 3,205 counted in the 2000 census.
Packer Park
Neighborhood
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Packer Park is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that originally included 1,000 homes built in two unique builder developments, of Packer Park in the 1950s and Brinton Estates during the 1990s.
National Park
Village
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National Park is a borough in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,026, a decrease of 10 from the 2010 census count of 3,036, which in turn reflected a decline of 169 from the 3,205 counted in the 2000 census. National Park is situated 1½ miles south of Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- Categories: shipyard, historic district, and transportation
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Philadelphia Naval Shipyard” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Astilleru Naval de Filadelfia”
- Chinese: “費城海軍工廠”
- Chinese: “費城海軍船塢”
- Chinese: “費城海軍造船廠”
- Chinese: “费城海军船坞”
- Chinese: “费城海军造船厂”
- Czech: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Dutch: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Finnish: “Philadelphian laivastontelakka”
- French: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- German: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Hebrew: “מספנת הצי של פילדלפיה”
- Hungarian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Indonesian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Italian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Japanese: “フィラデルフィア海軍造船所”
- Korean: “필라델피아 해군조선소”
- Malay: “Limbungan Kapal Philadelphia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Polish: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Portuguese: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Romanian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Russian: “Военно-морская верфь Филадельфии”
- Slovak: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Slovenian: “Mornariška ladjedelnica Filadelfija”
- Slovenian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Slovenian: “PNSY”
- Spanish: “Astillero Naval de Filadelfia”
- Swedish: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Ukrainian: “Philadelphia Naval Shipyard”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà máy đóng tàu Hải quân Philadelphia”
- Vietnamese: “Xưởng đóng tàu Hải quân Philadelphia”
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