Market Street had nine market houses that stretched from Water to Eighth Street and two markets west of Broad Street between Fifteenth and Seventeenth Streets
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City ordinance changed the name of High Street to Market Street.
City Commissioners voted to demolish the 1709 market house to make way for new market houses made of cast iron.
The Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad began laying streetcar tracks on High Street. Streetcars were not permitted to run on market days.
City ordinance approved the rebuilding of the 1720s Jersey Market House on Market Street between Front and Second Streets.
Ordinance passed for building a fish market on High Street east of Water Street
Market sheds or shambles lined High Street from Second to Sixth Street
North Second Street Market at Second and Coates (later Fairmount) opened
New Market at Second and Pine Streets opened. The market house was added in 1804.
On market days, Wednesday and Saturdays, iron chains were put up at sunrise to protect shoppers from the carts and carriages
First permanent head house was built in the middle of Second and High Streets. Known as “Towne Hall” the building served as Pennsylvania’s capitol until…
Local government agreed to have a formal market with a market head house located where Second Street crossed High Street.
Informal markets formed around Front and High (Market) Streets near where farmers and fisherman brought their goods from southern New Jersey.
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