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[edit] 2008
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The Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the first municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822 it operated until 1909, winning praise for its design and becoming a popular tourist attraction. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is once again in the process of winning back visitors, having now opened an Interpretive Center to aid in understanding the waterworks' purpose and history.
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- May
The USS Olympia is located at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Olympia was a protected cruiser in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Olympia was laid down June 17. 1891 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California and launched on November 5, 1892. Today a museum at Penn's Landing, the Olympia is the sole floating survivor of the U.S. Navy's Spanish-American War fleet.
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- April
The Burholme estate is located in Burholme Park in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The estate was built in 1859 by Joseph Waln Ryerss, a wealthy importer of goods from Asia and president of the Tioga railroad company, to be the families’ summer home. Today, The Burholme Estate still exists as a park, library and museum that is run by the Fairmount Park Commission.
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- March
Rossen Milanov conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Clark Park, July 2007. The Philadelphia Orchestra is an orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is historically considered to be one of the "Big Five" American orchestras.
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- February
The 1900 Republican National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held June 19 to June 21 in the Exposition Auditorium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The Exposition Auditorium was located south of the University of Pennsylvania. The incumbent President William McKinley was unanimously named the party's candidate for President. New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, who was himself a delegate, was nominated for Vice President by a vote of 925 to 1 abstention, with his vote alone abstaining.
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- January
Fairmount is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name "Fairmount" itself derives from the prominent hill on which the Philadelphia Museum of Art now sits, and where William Penn originally intended to build his own manor house. The broadest definition of the boundaries of the neighborhood place it roughly between Vine Street to the south, Girard Avenue to the north, the Schuylkill River to the west, and Broad Street to the east.
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