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6 unusual facts about Society Hill


Charles E. Peterson

The area, which is now known as “Society Hill,” is today one of the most desirable areas to live in Philadelphia.

Old St. Joseph's Church

The current church, on Willings Alley in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, the third church on the site, was built in 1839.

Society Hill

Society Hill, Middlesex County, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Middlesex County, New Jersey

Society Hill Towers

Society Hill Towers is a three-building condominium development located in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Society Hill, Philadelphia

Architect I. M. Pei and his team designed a plan for three 31-story Society Hill Towers and low-rise buildings.

Sven Gunnarsson

Sven Gunnarsson was a founder of the New Sweden colony, owner of land which today is most of present-day Society Hill in Philadelphia, and a progenitor of the Du Pont family in modern-day Delaware.


James Lide Coker

Major James Lide Coker (January 3, 1837 in Society Hill, South Carolina – June 25, 1918 in Hartsville, South Carolina) was a businessman, merchant, industrialist, philanthropist, and Civil War veteran, and the founder of Sonoco Products Company and Coker College.


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Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial

Instructed to find "a dwelling as small, as remote, and as cheap" as possible, Kosciuszko's secretary, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, chose Mrs. Ann Relf's boarding house in Society Hill (on the corner of 3rd and Pine Streets).

Zombies from The Beyond

Some notable productions include The Blowing Rock Stage in North Carolina (1997), which featured original cast members Claire Morkin, Matt McClanahan, and Jeremy Czarniak directed by author James Valcq, and the Philadelphia production at Society Hill Playhouse (1997), also directed by Valcq.