ShipSpotlight-Philadelphia

The USS Philadelphia is named for the largest city in Pennsylvania, situated in south-eastern region of the State, on the west bank of the Delaware River. The Schuylkill River flows through Philadelphia and The city is about 160 km north of the point where the Delaware River empties into Delaware Bay. Philadelphia gets its name from two Greek words meaning "city of brotherly love."

Few cities in the North American Land Mass are more imbued with early U.S. (The United States of America, Unifying Organization in this Region, Predating Star Fleet by Roughly 400 Years, No longer in Existence after New Earth Government Established in the late 21st Century) history than Philadelphia. It was founded in 1681 by William Penn, an English Quaker, who planned it as the center of his ambitious colonizing scheme for what would become the state of Pennsylvania. The town quickly prospered, thanks to peace treaties Penn signed with the Delaware Indians that permitted the Quakers (and other religious dissenters) to settle the area.

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