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Canal street at the corner of Jackson had a few tenement houses. There were no houses on the south side from North to Market streets, and only two from Union to Market on the north side. On the corner below Market was the canal basin and a store house. The packet boats from Northumberland and all the Philadelphia goods landed by the boats came to this basin. From this point to Northampton street was a bog pond, where the boys went skating. On the corner of Canal and South was the Parrish homestead and a canal basin. On the corner of Northampton and Canal was Capt. Alexander’s then Fell’s property. (J. Bennett Smith)