Most notable among the former League chapters which were spun off was the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, which served as a model for subsequent SF societies formed independent of the League history.

During World War II, de Camp served as a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard along with his fellow writers Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein.

Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals during the Revolutionary War, and the city served as the temporary U. S. capital while Washington, D. C., was under construction.

The Bank of the United States was established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while the city served as the national capital, from 1790 to 1800.

Stephen was named for a supposed founder of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales as early as 1665, as well as his great-great grandfather Stephen Crane ( 1709 – 1780 ), a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

From 1839 to 1842, he served as the first president of Central High School of Philadelphia, one of the oldest public high schools in the United States.

Thinly sliced ribeye or other tender cuts, cooked on a hot griddle and shredded slightly, and served on Italian style rolls are called Philly steaks, named after Philadelphia, the city in which they became famous.

A reunion of navy veterans who had served aboard the USS Eldridge told a Philadelphia newspaper in April 1999 that their ship had never made port in Philadelphia.

According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.

Hampton is served by several Amtrak trains a day, with direct service from a station in nearby Newport News ( on Warwick Boulevard just west of Mercury Boulevard ) through Williamsburg and Richmond to points along the Northeast Corridor from Washington DC through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City all the way to Boston.

The nearest rail passenger services are provided at Anniston, which is served daily by Amtrak's The Crescent to Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, and in the other direction to New Orleans.

During the colonial period, the town served as a stop along the King's Highway, and with its location at the confluence of Interstate 95, Interstate 495, Governor Printz Boulevard and Philadelphia Pike, has long been a thoroughfare for travel between Philadelphia ( 20 miles to the north ) and Washington, D. C. ( 100 miles to the south ).

Wilmington is also one of the major cities served by I-95, although the twin-span Delaware Memorial Bridge, a few miles south of the city, provides direct highway access between Delaware and New Jersey, carrying the I-295 eastern bypass route around Wilmington and Philadelphia, as well as highway U. S. 40, which continues eastward to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

For most of the second half of the 20th century, the area of Long Neck was sparsely populated, except for several mobile home communities that served mostly as summer vacation properties for permanent residents of the Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metropolitan areas.

He served as representative of Georgia to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia during 1775.

Prior to his arrival at New Harmony, he served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania.

In the early years, the Bay served as a commercial link to other populated areas on the western shore, such as Baltimore, Annapolis and Virginia, as well as northern areas such as Philadelphia and New York.

The City of Philadelphia is served by the Philadelphia Public School District.

Absecon Station is served by New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line trains, with east-west service between Philadelphia and Atlantic City.

Delran is served by a handful of daily newspapers including the Burlington County Times, The Courier-Post, The Trenton Times, The Trentonian, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

* 1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

As part of the legislation, Philadelphia was chosen as a temporary capital for ten years ( until December 1800 ), until the nation's capital in Washington, D. C. would be ready.

The July 1790 Residence Act named Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the temporary national capital for a 10-year period while the Federal City was under construction.

In part, to ensure passage of such a law when the time came, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was formed, and held its first meeting at the temporary Capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794.

Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison, a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia until 1800, likely encountered each other at social events in the temporary federal capital.

Dr. Morris Stroud French was a physician in Philadelphia at the time of the epidemic, one of several sent to Plymouth to set up a temporary hospital in the Central High School building.

Once he came to office, as the First Lady, Mrs. Washington hosted many affairs of state at New York and Philadelphia during their years as temporary capitals.

He spent most of his presidency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which served as the temporary national capital for 10 years, 1790 – 1800, while Washington, D. C. was under construction.

The second largest, Philadelphia Arena, was ruled out because its sight lines were deemed inadequate even for temporary use.

Independence Hall in the 1770s. Following the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the United States Congress moved out of Philadelphia and settled in New York City, designated as the temporary capital.

Philadelphia was selected as the temporary United States capital for ten years starting in 1790.

In 1855 he purchased his mansion in Philadelphia, to which he retired after his temporary abandonment of the stage.

* The Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, a temporary iron-wire footbridge erected across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.

Red Jacket met with George Washington, and later John Adams, in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia, then the temporary national capital.

President Washington admired Hoban's work on his Southern Tour, may have met with him in Charleston in May 1791, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( the temporary national capital ) in June 1792.

Constructed as a residence for the President of the United States when New York was the temporary capital, the building had been unoccupied since the government's relocation to Philadelphia in 1790.

To embarrass Madison, his contrary claims from the Federalist Papers were read aloud in congress: Eventually Southern opposition both to the bank and to Hamilton's plan to have the federal government assume the war debts of the states was mollified by the transfer of the nation's capital from its temporary seat in Philadelphia to a more southerly permanent seat on the Potomac, and the bill, along with the establishment of a national mint, was passed by congress and signed by President Washington.

Oney Judge ( sometimes spelled Ona ) was one of Martha Washington's slaves and chambermaids ; she served the Washingtons in Virginia and at the President's House in Philadelphia when Washington was President ; the city was the temporary capital from 1790-1800.

Had Philadelphia been selected and Franklin Field used, the stadium would have had to return to a grass surface, or perhaps use a temporary grass field as was done at two World Cup sites — Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

In 1999 he signed with the Philadelphia Eagles to serve as a temporary starter until then-rookie Donovan McNabb was ready to start.

The United States Constitution of 1787 had protected slavery for twenty years ; even so, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was formed, and held its first meeting at the temporary Capital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794.

There were also rumors that the Philadelphia Athletics ' move to Kansas City in 1955 was a temporary stop on the way to Los Angeles.

In the meantime, Philadelphia was chosen as a temporary capital.