Market Street Bridge (Philadelphia)
The existing Market Street Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is located where Market Street now crosses the Schuylkill River. The bridge succeeded ferry boats and a couple of rudimentary floating bridges across the Schuylkill River. (While the British were in possession of Philadelphia during the American Revolution, there was a pontoon bridge at this point and later a plank-floor bridge on floating logs.) The Market Street Bridge was also the final link in the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Audre Lorde (1934–1992)