Tacony, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Tacony is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, about ten miles from Center City. It is bounded by Frankford Avenue on the west, Cottman Avenue on the north, Levick Street on the south, and the Delaware River and I-95 on the east. Early Swedish records spell it Taokanick, a Lenape word for "forest" or "wilderness." Tacony's ZIP code, along with Wissinoming and East Mayfair, is 19135.
The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, one of only two Delaware River spans connecting New Jersey with northeast Philadelphia (the other being the Betsy Ross Bridge further downstream), has its Pennsylvania terminus in Tacony. The bridge, which carries Pennsylvania Route 73, connects with New Jersey Route 73 in Palmyra, New Jersey.
The neighborhood is known for having a large Italian American population.
[edit] History
Toaconing or Toaconick, was 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.
The area has seen economic decline and population loss in recent decades.
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