The Navy Yard, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Naval Business Center, was the first naval shipyard of the United States.
The yard grew up around facilities built in 1871 on League Island at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
The U.S. Navy ended most of its activities there in the 1990s, and in 2000, the city of Philadelphia took over and began to redevelop the land. Today, the Navy maintains a ghost fleet and a few engineering activities at the site, which also hosts various civilian offices and light and heavy industrial plants.
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