the neighborhood name is quite old, going back many decades before philadelphia's act of consolidation, when the area was part of the spring garden district of philadelphia county, not yet part of the city. finkel gives 1808 as the year it first appears in the written sources that he and his contributors consulted. the philadelphia information locator service list (augmented from the finkel 1995 list), while repeating finkel's definition of the neighborhood's boundaries, gives 1813 as the earliest year of use.