I like "Blockley" well enough, because it is historically accurate and also because it evokes the enormous almshouse planted in the buggy marshes along the west bank of the Schuylkill in early times, that endured until 1981 as Philadelphia General Hospital. Even "Almshouse City" would have a catchy ring to it, if that would make my university-hating neighbors happy..
I like "Lenapehoking" very well. But I believe the Lenape actually called University City "Aronimink." To them, the neighborhood's focal point would have lain there, where the Nanganesy dropped briskly into the Manayunk unhindered by marshes, and conveniently crossed by a branch of the important Minquas Trail that led to Susquehannocks, which held somewhat the same importance to them that Washington does to Philadelphia today. That's my neighborhood, Aronimink. -- Tony West ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Matthew Wolfe To: 'Anthony West' ; [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:29 PM Subject: RE: [UC] New Marketing Campaign Any sentiment out there to change from the contrived “University City” to the historically correct (or at least somewhat historically correct) name of “Blockley,” which was the name of the estate of an early property owner ? I think named form his home in England ? and later incorporated in the name of Blockley Township, an area which encompassed much of the area prior to the City-County consolidation in 1854? JMW the bumperstickers that went up last week.
