Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Logan Square is a name given to the area in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that lies north Market Street, south of Spring Garden Street, west of Broad Street, and east of the Schuylkill River. This contains the Franklintown neighborhood. It also contains Penn Center and much of Philadelphia's Central Business District. It is named for Logan Square, one of the five "squares", or parks, central to William Penn's design for Philadelphia. The square itself was named after James Logan an eighteenth-century mayor of Philadelphia.

[edit] See also

• The Cherry Street Tavern

[edit] External links

• Logan Square Neighborhood Association

v • d • e Neighborhoods of the Center City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Avenue of the Arts • Callowhill • Chinatown • Elfreth's Alley • Fitler Square • Franklintown • Logan Square • Jewelers' Row • Market East • Old City • Museum District • Penn Center • Penn's Landing • Rittenhouse Square • Society Hill • South Street • Washington Square West Center City • North Philadelphia • Northwest Philadelphia • The Northeast • South Philadelphia • Southwest Philadelphia • West Philadelphia