![]() She worried her two kids wouldn’t fit in. She picked this border suburb of 36,000 just north of Philadelphia to escape the kind of bigotry detected in that Facebook post. Three year years later, Brame-Scott still keeps screenshots of the conversation on her phone.īrame-Scott moved to Cheltenham seven years ago. The woman dodged, explaining she wasn’t racist because she had black friends. Why? Because we allowed them to take over as a neighborhood we regret it.”īrame-Scott knew what the poster meant by “them,” but she asked anyway. ![]() Now we can only have memories and reminisce through Facebook. “We had a great life! Over time the neighborhood changed and people panicked sold their houses. Historic homes and buildings designed by Frank Furness, Horace Trumbauer, and Frank Lloyd Wright coexist with split level, twin, row, and other forms of high-density housing, along with parks, arboretums, recreational and educational facilities, tree-lined streets, and commercial corridors.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor Today, Cheltenham is home to a high diversity of residents, housing stock, and neighborhoods. The Reading Railroad tracks in Cheltenham were electrified in 1931 for faster passenger service, and following Conrail acquisition, became part of the heavily-traveled SEPTA Main Line in 1983. The 20th century and great depression established Cheltenham as one of Philadelphia's inner ring and streetcar suburbs, and brought in higher density housing construction that continued into the postwar years and the 21st century. Cheltenham then transitioned to a community of wealthy industrial and merchant Philadelphians who built their large estates in what was still rural land. The coming of the railroad in the 1800's helped power the industrial revolution, connecting the heavy-industry factories in Philadelphia with the steel mills of the Lehigh Valley. Cheltenham was founded in 1682, and its early history was defined by mills using Tookany Creek to power gristmills, manufacture shovels, hammers, and spades, and later carpentry products such as doors, window frames, and shutters. ![]()
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