Neighborhood Revitalization
Athletic Recreation Center: The Jewel of Brewerytown
Posted July 18th, 2008 by TeishanBrewerytown Sharswood Community Civic Association with Scribe Video Center
This video is available for purchase as part of the Precious Places Community History Project Vol.3 compilation DVD.
Baseball and Brewerytown have an illustrious history: the famed Oakland A’s baseball team originally hailed from this section of North Philadelphia. Known as the Philadelphia Athletics, the team was based in the neighborhood in the late 1800s. When they departed out-of-state, the Athletic Recreation Center was founded at the team’s former site. With a rich tradition of community-based sports and recreation, the Athletic Recreation Center has been a central feature of the Brewerytown neighborhood for over a century.
Fair Hill: To Badlands and Back Again
Posted December 13th, 2007 by InternFair Hill Cemetery with Scribe Video Center
Videomaking Consultant - Martin Lautz; Humanities Consultant - Miriam Camitta; Post Production - Martin Lautz
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.
Fair Hill: To Badlands and Back Again the history of a 300-year-old Quaker cemetery in North Philadelphia on Germantown Avenue. Deeded to local residents by Quakerism founder George Fox in the 1700s, the burial ground is the resting place of many of women and men who were active in the Underground Railroad. Philadelphians such as feminist and abolitionist Lucretia Mott and abolitionist Robert Purvis are buried here.
