Chestnut Street (Philadelphia)

Chestnut Street

21st and Chestnut in Center City
Maintained by	PennDOT and City of Philadelphia
Length	5.6 mi (9.0 km)[1]
Component highways	SR 3008 from Front Street to City Hall PA 3 eastbound between 63rd and 33rd Streets in Philadelphia
Location	Center City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
West end	PA 3 in Cobbs Creek
Major junctions	US 13 in University City I-76 in University City PA 611 (Broad Street) in Center City
East end	Front Street in Penn's Landing
North	Market Street
South	Walnut Street
Construction
Commissioned	1682

Chestnut Street is a major historic street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally named Wynne Street because Thomas Wynne's home was there. William Penn renamed it Chestnut Street in 1684. It runs east–west from the Delaware River waterfront in downtown Philadelphia through Center City and West Philadelphia. The road crosses the Schuylkill River on the Chestnut Street Bridge. It serves as eastbound Pennsylvania Route 3 between 63rd and 33rd Streets.

Stratton's Tavern was located on Chestnut Street near Sixth Street. When the citizens of Philadelphia were afraid that the British might attack the essentially unmanned Fort Mifflin, the secretary of the Young Men's Democratic Society called a meeting held at Stratton's Tavern at Chestnut and Sixth Streets on March 20, 1813. The young men agreed to volunteer their services to defend the fort.^[2]