Chestnut Street (Philadelphia)

Chestnut Street
21st and Chestnut in Center City
Maintained byPennDOT and City of Philadelphia
Length5.6 mi (9.0 km)[1]
Component
highways
SR 3008 from Front Street to City Hall
PA 3 eastbound between 63rd and 33rd Streets in Philadelphia
LocationCenter City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
West end PA 3 in Cobbs Creek
Major
junctions
US 13 in University City
I-76 in University City
PA 611 (Broad Street) in Center City
East endFront Street in Penn's Landing
NorthMarket Street
SouthWalnut Street
Construction
Commissioned1682

Chestnut Street is a major historic street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally named Wynne Street because Thomas Wynne's home was there. William Penn renamed it Chestnut Street in 1684. It runs east–west from the Delaware River waterfront in downtown Philadelphia through Center City and West Philadelphia. The road crosses the Schuylkill River on the Chestnut Street Bridge. It serves as eastbound Pennsylvania Route 3 between 63rd and 33rd Streets.

Stratton's Tavern was located on Chestnut Street near Sixth Street. When the citizens of Philadelphia were afraid that the British might attack the essentially unmanned Fort Mifflin, the secretary of the Young Men's Democratic Society called a meeting held at Stratton's Tavern at Chestnut and Sixth Streets on March 20, 1813. The young men agreed to volunteer their services to defend the fort.[2]

  1. ^ "Chestnut Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
  2. ^ Henry, Mathew Schropp (1860). History of the Lehigh Valley: Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities ; with Complete History of All Its Internal Improvements, Progress of the Coal and Iron Trade, Manufactures, Etc. Bixler & Corwin. stratton's tavern philadelphia.