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Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman is a resident and business owner in Historic Holmesburg and Tacony of Northeast Philadelphia. He has been a filmmaker for well over 8 years and in 2011 he won an Audience Choice award for his first feature film. He is a published author, journalist for two publications and an established technology entrepreneur.

Jason is an avid historian and loves to explore the rich and vibrant history of Northeast Philadelphia. His passion should be apparent with how much work he has been putting into this documentary. You can learn much more about him on his personal website JasonSherman.org

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Often, there are hidden truths and old tales that get lost with each generation. As such, there is an untold story about the United States that begins in the 1600s. Prior to English entrepreneur and Pennsylvania founder William Penn’s arrival to the New World, this continent was inhabited by various Indigenous Indian tribes. Once the Swedes and the Dutch began settling in the area they bartered for land (and fought over it). After William Penn’s arrival the land was sectioned out to various hamlets. The Indigenous tribes started to die off because of fighting or disease and most of them left the river areas. Mills started to appear in the late 1600s and early 1700s which created a boom in