Chapter 6 (The North Atlantic Provinces And Northern New England)

Chapter 6 has a section on Historical Geography and Settlement. It talks about how the English, Irish, and Scots settled the North Atlantic region. The French Acadians settled the Maritimes. Their cultures imprint has shaped today's landscape. It also explains how the Europeans arrival allowed the natives to stop hunting as much and they were able to start the furs-for-food trade. Philadelphia has similar history as the ones being told in this chapter.


Philadelphia is in the Mid-Atlantic region

-Philadelphia was founded by William Penn. Who later left Philadelphia to return back to England.

-Native Americans were more or less present, either as spectators of the improvements then progressing, or, venders of their game and venison from the neighboring wilds.

-The Swedes and Dutch who were the earliest settlers as neighbors, brought their productions to market as a matter of course.

- Settlements were made outside of these boundaries, and in time they became separately incorporated and had separate governments, making congeries of towns and districts, the whole group being known abroad simply as Philadelphia.

-Philadelphia also had trades with other states on food or anything that was needed.

-Port Richmond occupying the Delaware River front was were they got a lot of shipment in. This began to improve the unproductive land in the vicinity; for the shipping-piers, the coal-depots, the engine-houses, workshops, offices, etc. The coal trade built it up in the first place, but the district is now the center of a manufacturing trade that has but few superiors in the United States.

Source:
  
http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/philadelphia.html

Mayda, Chris. A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. Print.  
 
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