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Mifflin School

Thomas Mifflin School. Image provided by City of Philadelphia Department of Records

808 Brown Street, on the left at 3rd, between Brown and Poplar

The Mifflin School is named after Thomas Mifflin, member of the Continental Congress and a three-term governor of Pennsylvania. This public secondary school opened in 1825 and served the immigrant populations of Northern Liberties until 1919.