Contents » Colonial Philadelphia
Abolitionism

African American Migration

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

American Philosophical Society

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Anglican Church (Church of England)

Arboretums

Artisans

Astronomy

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The)

Bakeries and Bakers

Barbershops and Barbers

Bartram’s Garden

Billiards (Pool)

Book Publishing and Publishers

Bookselling

Brickmaking and Brickmakers

Bridgeton, New Jersey

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Cemeteries

Center City

Ceramics

Chester, Pennsylvania

China Trade

City Councils (Philadelphia)

Civil Defense

Classical Music

Clocks and Clockmakers

Coffeehouses

Common Sense

Continental Congresses

Crime

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Dancing Assembly

Deafness and the Deaf

Delaware Bay

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Dentistry and Dentists

Dogfighting

Dogs

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Dutch (The) and The Netherlands

Educational Reform

Elfreth’s Alley

Entomology (Study of Insects)

Fairmount Park Houses

Ferries

First Purchasers of Pennsylvania

Flaxseed and Linen
In the colonial era linen and flaxseed were fundamental to the mercantile life of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Philadelphia’s linen and flaxseed market extended from the farthest point of settlement, Fort Pitt, to the fields of England and Ireland. Traveling in a circle of trade across the north Atlantic, these goods forged relationships among ⇒ Read More
Flour Milling

Forts and Fortifications

France and the French

Freemasonry

Funerals and Burial Practices

Furnituremaking

German Reformed Church

Glassmakers and Glass Manufacturing

Grand Juries

Great Wagon Road

Greater Philadelphia Region

Green Country Town

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Heating (Home)

Herpetology (Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)

Hinterlands

Historic Germantown: New Knowledge
in a Very Old Neighborhood

Historic Preservation

Hog Island

Holy Experiment

Home Remedies

Horticulture

Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Immigration and Migration (Colonial Era)

Independence Hall

Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Insurance

Irish (The) and Ireland

Iron Production

Junto

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Law and Lawyers

Lehigh Valley

Liberty Bell

Library Company of Philadelphia

Literary Societies

Log Cabins

Lotteries

Lower Delaware Colonies (1609-1704)

Loyalists

Machining and Machinists

Magazines, Literary

Mansions

Market Street

Mason-Dixon Line

Mayors (Philadelphia)

Medicine (Colonial Era)

Mennonites

Meteorology (Study of the Atmosphere)

Militia

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Moravians

Mount Holly Township, New Jersey

Mummies

Musical Instrument Making

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations 1681-1753

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations, 1754-89

Native and Colonial Go-Betweens

Native Peoples to 1680

Nativism

New Sweden

New Year’s Traditions

Norristown, Pennsylvania

North Philadelphia

Nursing

Opera and Opera Houses

Ornithology (Study of Birds)

Pacific World (Connections and Impact)

Painters and Painting

Paints and Varnishes

Paper and Papermaking

Pennsylvania (Founding)

Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges

Petty Island

Philadelphia Contributionship

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Lawyer

Philadelphia Pepper Pot

Pietism

Pine Barrens

Pirates

Plantations

Plays and Playwrights

Poetry and Poets

Police Department (Philadelphia)

Polish Settlement and Poland

Pontiac’s War and the Paxton Boys

Poverty

Printing and Publishing

Prisons and Jails

Private (Independent) Schools

Privateering

Proclamation Line of 1763

Public Health

Public Markets

Public Transportation

Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Restaurants

Revolutionary Crisis (American Revolution)

Roman Catholic Education
(Elementary and Secondary)

Roman Catholic Parishes

Row Houses

Salem County, New Jersey

Scientific Societies

Scots Irish (Scotch Irish)

Seven Years’ War

Shipbuilding and Shipyards

Shoemakers and Shoemaking

Silk and Silk Makers

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Smith’s and Windmill Islands

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Social Dancing

Society Hill

Sounds of the City: The Colonial Era

Street Vendors

Sugar and Sugar Refining

Surveying (Colonial)

Taverns

Tobacco

Trails (Indian)

Treaty Negotiations with Native Americans

Treaty of Shackamaxon

Trees

Tun Tavern

Vagrancy

Valley Forge

Walking Purchase

West Chester, Pennsylvania

West New Jersey

Wilmington, Delaware

Woodbury, New Jersey
