Tacony, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Tacony is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, about ten miles from Center City. It is located along the Delaware River west to Frankford Avenue, between Holmesburg and Wissinoming. Early Swedish records spell it Taokanick, a Lenape word for "forest" or "wilderness."
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Toaconing or Toaconick, a small township situated in the bend between the Delaware River, Wissinoming Creek on the northeast and Frankford Creek and Little Tacony Creek on the south and west. It lay east of the town of Frankford, and at an early date was incorporated in Oxford Township. The neighborhood's early history was heavily shaped by its founder, English industrialist Henry Disston. Disston's saw mill was the major employer in the neighborhood.
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