Third District Police Jurisdiction - (Fifth Ward) - Chestnut to South / Seventh St to Delaware River - 1887

Noll's Map of Philadelphia - 1890

The Third District Station-House is on Union (Delancey) Street below Fourth. It was built in 1880, and cost $18,000. The boundaries of the district are from Chestnut to South streets, and from Seventh Street to the Delaware River, and within its limits are several banks, trust and deposit companies, the general offices of the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads, the Custom House, Independence Hall, Carpenter's Hall, the Corn Exchange, Commercial Exchange, the courts of the city and county, Dock Street Market and the Fish Market, Fitzpatrick's Bonded Warehouses, St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal, St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic churches, many wholesale stores, and on Dock Street below Walnut the " Blue Anchor Tavern," which is one of the oldest buildings now standing in Philadelphia, having been built of bricks imported from Holland in 1719.

(Source: The Philadelphia police, past and present [by] Howard O. Sprogle - 1887)

Atlas of the City of Phila 1885

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