Frankford Arsenal
The Frankford Arsenal is a former United States Army ammunition plant located adjacent to the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of the original course of Frankford Creek.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bridesburg station and First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg.
Bridesburg station
Railway station
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Bridesburg station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Bridge Street and Harbison Avenue in the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, it serves the Trenton Line. Bridesburg station is situated 2,300 feet west of Frankford Arsenal.
First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg
Church
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First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Frankford Arsenal.
Tacony–Palmyra Bridge
Bridge
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The Tacony–Palmyra Bridge is a combination steel tied-arch and double-leaf bascule bridge across the Delaware River that connects New Jersey Route 73 in Palmyra, New Jersey with Pennsylvania Route 73 in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. Tacony–Palmyra Bridge is situated 1 mile east of Frankford Arsenal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridesburg and Wissinoming.
Bridesburg
Neighborhood
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Bridesburg is the northernmost neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A mostly working-class neighborhood, Bridgesburg is an historically German and Irish community, with a significant community of Polish immigrants who arrived mostly in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Wissinoming
Neighborhood
Wissinoming is a neighborhood in the Near Northeast section of Philadelphia, United States. It was the site of locomotive builder Matthias Baldwin's estate "Wissinoming", which was located near Tacony and Van Kirk Streets.
Palmyra
Village
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Palmyra is a borough in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,438, an increase of 40 from the 2010 census count of 7,398, which in turn reflected an increase of 307 from the 7,091 counted in the 2000 census. Palmyra is situated 2 miles east of Frankford Arsenal.
Frankford Arsenal
- Type: Historic site
- Description: former United States Army munitions plant
- Categories: munitions factory, military installation, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.00855° or 40° 0′ 31″ northLongitude
-75.06228° or 75° 3′ 44″ westOpen location code
87G62W5Q+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 787692243OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q1357068
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Portuguese—“Frankford Arsenal” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Frankford Arsenal (Pennsylvania)”
- Chinese: “法蘭克福兵工廠”
- Dutch: “Frankford Arsenal”
- French: “arsenal de Frankford”
- French: “Arsenal de Frankford”
- German: “Frankford Arsenal (Pennsylvania)”
- German: “Frankford Arsenal”
- Japanese: “フランクフォード・アーセナル”
- Japanese: “フランクフォード兵器廠”
- Japanese: “フランクフォード造兵廠”
- Portuguese: “Frankford Arsenal”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Frankford Arsenal Boat Launch and Frankford Arsenal Trailhead.
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