Source:Ferguson-street-ninth-ward/content

Ferguson Street, Ninth Ward.—On the 28th of July, 1854 [sic], the City Councils granted authority to the Pennsylvania Railroad to vacate a portion of Ferguson street, in the Ninth Ward, on condition that the Company make a new street in its place. The street was vacated, and the Company occupied it with their tracks. The Company then came to the conclusion, it seems, that their charter would not permit them to make the new street, except by the usual method of appointing viewers and assessing damages done to the property on the line of the street.

John H. Hampton, Esq., applied to the Court of Quarter Sessions, on Saturday, for the appointment of viewers to assess damages. The Court granted the order, and appointed Ed. Campbell, Jr., Jas. W. Biddle, Henry Chalfant, James Kelly, and John Gilfillan, Jr., said viewers.