The land that jurisdiction forgot: West end of Colorado Avenue

07/04/11 Drive along West end of Colorado Avenue and you'll hardly feel in the middle of nowhere: motels, fast-food restaurants, liquor stores, the Red Rocks Shopping Center, anchored by a Safeway.But this bustling 1.5-mile stretch is known as "no man's land" - an area divided among...

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07/11/11 100 YEARS AGO July 11, 1911 Renton Tunnah, secretary of the Capitol Commission, expects to open a drive from the Capitol steps to Seventh Street, giving an entrance to vehicles to the Capitol grounds from that direction. This driveway has already been opened as far as Sixth Street and laid with crushed rock. Mr. Tunnah has set out grass on the Capitol grounds in places in the hope of getting an ...

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Perkasie Borough Council to continue discussing trolley tunnel improvements

07/17/11 Flowers are beginning to replace the weeds outside the Seventh Street trolley tunnel in Perkasie. Since the Liberty Bell route closed in 1951, the tunnel has become known more for graffiti and broken bottles than for its historic interest.

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