Queen Village, Philadelphia
The earliest European settlements in Queen Village were part of "New Sweden" in a region inhabited by indigenous Lenni Lenapi who themselves called the area "Wiccaco", or "Pleasant Place".[6] To meet spill-over demand, Queen Village builders constructed homes cheaply from wood, although this had been outlawed due to fires within the city limits by 1796.[9] By 1830, Queen Village, as well as the southern parts of Southwark, contained a thriving community of 20,000 who made their living as weavers, tailors, ship builders, mariners or as machinists and blacksmiths in iron foundries.[11] After the district was formally consolidated into the city of Philadelphia in 1856, a larger, centralized police force was deployed[12] to contain mayhem fueled largely by economic competition.By the first half of the twentieth century, Queen Village had grown into a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood of merchants and laborers living in dense enclaves, not unlike New York's Lower East Side.After World War II, Queen Village's population began to decline for the first time in its three hundred year history as families left the city for the suburbs.Queen Village's intersection of Fifth and Carpenter Streets was ranked ninth in a 2007 list of the city's top ten recreational drug corners, according to an article by Philadelphia Weekly reporter Steve Volk.
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