Chestnut Street (Philadelphia)
Chestnut Street is a major historic street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally named Wynne Street because Thomas Wynne's home was there. William Penn renamed it Chestnut Street in 1684. It runs east–west from the Delaware River waterfront in downtown Philadelphia through Center City and West Philadelphia. The road crosses the Schuylkill River on the Chestnut Street Bridge. It serves as eastbound Pennsylvania Route 3 between 63rd and 33rd Streets.
21st and Chestnut in Center City | |
| Maintained by | PennDOT and City of Philadelphia |
|---|---|
| Length | 5.6 mi (9.0 km) |
| Component highways | SR 3008 from Front Street to City Hall PA 3 eastbound between 63rd and 33rd Streets in Philadelphia |
| Location | Center City, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| West end | PA 3 in Cobbs Creek |
| Major junctions | US 13 in University City I-76 in University City PA 611 in Center City |
| East end | Front Street in Penn's Landing |
| North | Market Street |
| South | Walnut Street |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | 1682 |
Stratton's Tavern was located on Chestnut Street near Sixth Street. When the citizens of Philadelphia were afraid that the British might attack the essentially unmanned Fort Mifflin, the secretary of the Young Men's Democratic Society called a meeting held at Stratton's Tavern at Chestnut and Sixth Streets on March 20, 1813. The young men agreed to volunteer their services to defend the fort.