Kingsessing, Philadelphia
The name Kingsessing, also spelled Chinsessing, comes from a Delaware word meaning "a place where there is a meadow".[1][2] The historic Lenape, or Delaware as the English called them, had a village of the same name that roughly occupied the same site as where the current neighborhood was later developed.When the township was organized to encompass where the Lenape and a later Swedish village stood, it also was named as Kingsessing.In 1669 Hans Månsson, a Swedish settler, received a patent for an 1,100-acre plantation along the Schuylkill River between the current location of 60th Street and Woodlands Cemetery, extending as far west as Cobb's Creek.[7] Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Kingsessing Branch at 1201 South 51st Street, below Chester Avenue.
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