OCCUPIED BY
GEORGE WASHINGTON
FROM APRIL 23, 1789
TO FEBRUARY 23, 1790
ERECTED BY THE
MARY WASHINGTON COLONIAL CHAPTER, D.A.R.
APRIL 30, 1899
At No. 7 Cherry Street gas was first introduced into the city in 1825. This is the Cherry Hill district, sadly deteriorated from the merry days of its infancy. Its name is still preserved in Cherry Street, which is hemmed in by tenement-houses which the Italian population crowd in almost inconceivable numbers. At the top of the hill, where these Italians drag out a crowded existence, Richard Sackett, an Englishman, established a pleasure garden beyond the city in 1670, and because its chief attraction was an orchard of cherry trees, called it the Cherry Garden—a name that has since clung to the locality.
