03/01/2026
Great photo of the Delaware River somewhere between Bridge Street and and Robbins Avenue.
● The following is courtesy of our neighborhood page, Remembering Port Richmond and Fred Cimino. ♥️
Continuing with "Port Richmond: A Cornucopia of Smaller Neighborhoods" by Fred Cimino
THE BEACH included the shoreline along the Delaware River from Somerset Street north to Lewis Street. In this area some of the first Eastern European immigrants to settle in Port Richmond occupied clapboard “beach houses,” some of which were built on stilts to make amends for the Delaware River tidal waters (ca. 1890 – 1920)
(Pictured below: Could not find old pictures of Port Richmond houses along the Delaware. This picture is in the Wissinoming section along the Delaware.)
