Penn Treaty Park

[1] At the river's edge, the park provides an unimpeded view of the full span of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge that connects Philadelphia to the city of Camden, New Jersey.

Bordering the southern edge of the park there was a nightclub with part of its facilities built on a reclaimed pier that stretches out into the river, however this is gone and will soon become a condominium development.

Though now located in a post-industrial area surrounded by the remnants of heavy industry, the park has been an open space with public access to the river since its dedication on October 28, 1893.

Penn, unarmed in accord with Quaker custom and speaking the Algonquian language,[dubious – discuss] proclaimed that, "We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good-will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love.

Tamanend replied, "We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure.

The small obelisk remained tucked away in the northwest corner of a lumber yard that sat on the site, until actions were taken in 1893 to acquire the land and build the park that exists today.

Penn Treaty Park with a statue of William Penn to the left and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the distance
The "Treaty Elm," Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800).
Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771-72) by Benjamin West , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts .
"Penn's Treaty with the Indians" by Edward Hicks , 1837. Hicks also included the subject in many of the 61 versions of his "Peaceable Kingdom."
"Penn and the Indians" (1879) by Constantino Brumidi , Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.