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A match in progress at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, 1899.
Credit: Courtesy of the Chestnut Hill Historical Society and the Philadelphia Cricket Club
Founded in 1854, the Philadelphia Cricket Club is the nation's oldest continuing group devoted to the playing of games. The Club had no permanent home until 1884, when Henry Houston donated the necessary land directly across the street from his Wissahickon Inn, which had opened earlier that year.