Byberry, Philadelphia
| Township of Byberry | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Philadelphia |
| Coordinates | 40°06′00″N 74°58′05″W / 40.10000°N 74.96806°WCoordinates: 40°06′00″N 74°58′05″W / 40.10000°N 74.96806°W |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Area code | 215 |
 Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania highlighting Byberry Township prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854
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 Location of Byberry in Pennsylvania
Location of Byberry in Pennsylvania
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Byberry is a neighborhood in the far northeast section of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Originally it was incorporated as the Township of Byberry and was the northeasternmost municipality of Philadelphia County before the City and County were consolidated in 1854.
Byberry had a strong abolitionist presence and may have been an original stop on the Underground Railroad. Today, the area occupied by the township is mostly synonymous with the neighborhood of Somerton, as the neighborhoods of Byberry and Somerton tend to overlap.
A township in the extreme northeastern part of the County of Philadelphia; bounded on the east and northeast by Poquessing Creek and Bucks County; on the northwest by Montgomery County; and on the west and southwest by the Township of Moreland.
Its greatest length was estimated at 5 miles (8.0 kilometres); its greatest breadth, 2 1⁄2 miles (4.0 kilometres); area, 4.700 acres (0.01902 km2). It was settled by a few Swedes previous to the year 1675, and in that year by four brothers—Nathaniel, Thomas, Daniel and William Walton—who were all young and single men. They had arrived at Newcastle from England early in that year, and, having prospected the land in the neighborhood of the Delaware River, chose the country near Poquessing Creek, and settled there.
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