Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
{{Distinguish|Lower Oxford Township, Pennsylvania|Oxford Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania|Upper Oxford Township, Pennsylvania}}
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| subdivision_name2 = Philadelphia
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| map_caption = Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania highlighting Lower Oxford Township prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854
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Oxford Township was a township in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
History
A township running from the county line in a southeasterly direction to the Delaware River, and along the same southwestward to Frankford Creek, and up the same northwestwardly to Tacony Creek (Tookany), which it followed until it reached the county line near were the northwestern boundary joined it. Frankford, Whitehall, Cedar Grove and Volunteer Town were in this township, and it also took in the former township of Tacony. Greatest length, three miles; greatest breadth, four miles; area, 7,680 acres (31 km2). It was one of the earliest townships established in Pennsylvania. The township was surrounded by the waters of the Delaware and Frankford Creek on two sides, and was traversed by the Little Tacony and Sissamocksink (Wissinoming) or Little Wahauk Creeks.
Resources
- [http://www.phila.gov/phils/Docs/Inventor/graphics/wards/wards1.htm Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683-1854] ({{cite book |last1=Daly |first1=John |last2=Weinberg |first2=Allen |title=Genealogy of Philadelphia County Subdivisions |date=October 1966 |publisher=Philadelphia Dept. of Records |edition=Second |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogy-of-philadelphia-county-political-subdivisions-1687-1960}})
- [http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/incorporated.html Information] courtesy of [http://www.ushistory.org ushistory.org]
- [http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/incorporated.html Incorporated District, Boroughs, and Townships in the County of Philadelphia, 1854 By Rudolph J. Walther] - excerpted from the book at the ushistory.org website
- Ellet, Charles, Jr. [http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/ellet Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843.]
- Dripps, M. [http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/dripps Map of the Township of Oxford, Boroughs of Frankford and Bridesburg, 1849.]
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Category:Municipalities in Philadelphia County prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854