Schuylkill River. Philadelphia International Airport now sits on the land that was once Hog Island. European settlers purchased Hog Island from the Lenape...
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Look up hog island in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hog Island may refer to: Hog Island (Tasmania) Former name of Paradise Island Hog Island (North...
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by the McMyler-Interstate Company of Cleveland, Ohio, for the Hog Island, Philadelphia, shipyard. They helped produce warships during World War I, are...
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Shipping Board, built an emergency shipyard on Hog Island at the site of the present-day Philadelphia International Airport. No ships were produced in...
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Shipyard: Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018. "Main Channel Deepening". Philadelphia Regional...
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land on the island in the late 17th century, originally located near the mouth of the Schuylkill River, just north of Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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1944, on what turned out to be her final voyage, the ship left Hog Island, Philadelphia, where she had been loaded with 6,127 tons of munitions.[citation...
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about forty had good jobs in the Hog Island, Philadelphia, shipyards. In 1883, Luther Standing Bear was sent to Philadelphia to work as an intern for John...
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The Hog Island Light was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast...
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built in 1918 by the American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship was 390 feet 0 inches (118.87 m) long,...
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