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Preferred term

Main Line (PA, USA)  

Entry terms

  • Philadelphia (PA, USA), Main Line

Scope note

  • collective name for a group of affluent suburbs west of Philadelphia, named after the "Main Line" of the Pennsylvania Railroad; ca.200 square miles along Lancaster Ave. (US Route 30) and the former Pennsylvania Railroad mail line, from the city limits to approximately Malvern

Notation

  • 33538

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/45G-FWVKPJ79-T

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