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Passyunk Township
Passyunk Township
Former Township
	Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania highlighting Passyunk Township prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854
	Coordinates: 39°53′53″N 75°12′42″W / 39.89806°N 75.21167°W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area codes	215, 267, and 445

Passyunk Township (Lenape Pahsayunk 'in the valley'^[1] from pahsaek 'valley') was a township that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States.

History edit

This township ceased to exist when it was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia, following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.^[2]

^ "pahsayunk". Lenape Talking Dictionary. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
^ Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683–1854 [1] (Daly, John; Weinberg, Allen (October 1966). Genealogy of Philadelphia County Subdivisions (Second ed.). Philadelphia Dept. of Records.)

Johnson, Amandus. The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware Volume I: Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638–1664 (1911)