The historic boundaries of the former borough of Bridesburg were the original course of Frankford Creek around the south and west, the Delaware River to the southeast, and Port Richmond to the southwest, along a border at Pike Street near Wheatsheaf Lane.

Adjacent neighborhoods are Wissinoming to the northeast, Whitehall to the north, Frankford to the northwest, and Port Richmond to the southwest.

The 19137 ZIP Code, of which Bridesburg forms the major part, extends as far to the southwest as Castor Avenue, and includes some area to the northwest of I-95 and the original course of Frankford Creek.

Physical boundaries of Bridesburg are: Bridge Street on the north, Aramingo Avenue and I-95 to the northwest, Frankford Creek to the south, and the Delaware River to the east.

Explorer Henry Hudson in 1609 was the first European to set foot in this region, and based on his findings these Indians were considered to be the first inhabitants of the area.

The region was known in Colonial times as Point-no-Point, due to the deceptive appearance of the blunt cape at the mouth of Frankford Creek.

On 25 May 1777 John Adams wrote: The road to Point-no-point lies along the river Delaware, in fair sight of it and its opposite shore.

On each side, are beautiful rows of trees, buttonwoods, oaks, walnuts, cherries and willows, especially down towards the banks of the river.

[4]Bridesburg was incorporated as a borough on April 1, 1848;[5] it included the peninsula between the lower Frankford Creek and the Delaware River, and beyond Richmond district, the boundary lying near the projected line of Pike street, not far from Wheat Sheaf Lane.

At the end of the 19th century, Costello, Cooey & Co., a company specializing in kidskin leather (from young goats) and the chromium tanning process, employed more than 100 workers.

"[6] Robert Cooey (1840-1903), an emigrant from Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, arrived in Philadelphia on the packet ship The Provincialist in 1851 with his sister Isabella at the age of 10.

partnered with Mark Costello (1844-1928), an emigrant from Ballinderry, to form a Philadelphia tannery, with Charles O'Neill, John McStay, and Christopher Conway.

They rented a narrow store front at 2nd & Willow Street, with its rail lines down the center, bringing livestock and their valuable skin, especially goats, sheep and calves but also cattle and horses.

Martha, her children, grandchildren and descendants continue the family tradition of life on Long Beach Island.

"The Frankford leather plant of Robert H. Foerderer Inc. originally hired Polish men to work in curing the hides.