GeoHistory Map

Lately we have been focusing on the history and the reasoning for why Philadelphia was created the way it is. Today I got to see how my neighborhood looked from an aerial map in the 1930's. It was in this map that I got to see just how much Philadelphia has really changed. Now Passyunk Avenue used to be Point Breeze Avenue in the 1930's. Another major difference in these maps is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park wasn't established in the 1930's. The even major change is that my neighborhood wasn't even built in the 1930's it was all forest area and there was a number of creeks. Now where all the greenery and creeks used to exist are only row homes and huge plazas. Philadelphia has changed a lot.