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From: C E Keenan <>
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] COATES - FERRELL
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 15:07:10 -0500
References: <18.2004e67.26163966@aol.com>


wrote:
<<Alotta, Robert I. "Mermaids, Monasteries, Cherokees and Custer: The
Stories Behind Philadelphia Street Names," Chicago: Bonus Books (1990).>>

Lani,
Is there anything in the book re Harley St. in SW Philadelphia? Rumor has it the
city encouraged the family to move there when the city was trying to settle SW
Phila., by promising to name a street after the family. I know there's more than
one Harley St./Rd., etc., in Phila., but as far as I know, it's just the SW
Phila. (Clearview) one that's related to my family; just wondering if there's any
documentation to prove or disprove the family rumor.
Claire

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