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Roberts Family Collection

Author: An Act to incorporate the City Avenue Bridge Company
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Place of Publication/Source: Original document
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Date: March 18, 1866
Extent of Work/Condition: Printed document
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Collection: Roberts
Notes/Abstract: File of the Senate (PA.) No. 690, Owen Jones, Jacob L.Staddelman, Algernon Roberts, Montgomery County, S. Morris Waln, Charles E. Smith, George B. Roberts, City Avenue Bridge Company, Schuylkill River, Wissahickon Creek, Bridge regulation act of April 12, 1855. (Penciled note by T. Williams Roberts: Toll Bridge on City Avenue over River. After a few years the City bought it and made it a free bridge and the company was disbanded. George B. Roberts drove TWR over this bridge as the first carriage to pass over it in about 1895)
Call Number: R0088