This tour is a miscellany of anything and everything that’s below
the surface of PHILADELPHIA, the tunnels and subway stations,
basements, concourses, sewers and utility lines that form an
underground city BENEATH OUR FEET.We’ll travel along various
sub-terrestrial passageways as we trace underground transportation’s
influence on Philadelphia’s growth and development–and examine the
visionary ideas that never came to fruition.
***PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WON’T BE ENTERING ANY AREAS CLOSED TO THE
PUBLIC!***
However, we have tracked down the history of pretty much all of the
abandoned tunnels and ghost stations those unrealized plans left
behind and have found rare images to show you what they look like.
We’ll dig into the big questions, such as: Why does Philly have so
few subway lines? Plus, we’ll answer a host of small ones, like:
What happened to “The Greatest Subway Station in the World”? Why
is there an abandoned tunnel and station under Arch Street? And what
surprise did engineers discover when they started digging under City
Hall?
Starting point: Northwest corner of 8th and Market
Ending Point: SEPTA headquarters, 1212 Market Street
Questions, concerns, conundrums? Email Hidden City project director
Pete Woodall at pwoodall@hiddencityphila.org or call him at
267-259-7112.
Tour guide JENNA HORTON (she/her) has lived in PHILADELPHIA since
2009. She works as a freelance performer with companies ranging from
experimental to traditional, but maintains a penchant for the former.
She also worked as a tour guide in PHILADELPHIA’s history district
for six years, and is currently writing a new tour in response to that
experience. For more information, visit her website
at jennahorton.com [http://www.jennahorton.com/].
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