The northern portions of the area were wooded with forests of oak, green pine, evergreen, chestnut, walnut, ash, button, magnolia, and hickory trees, while the meadowlands south and east were covered with moss, grass, and weeds ideal for grazing livestock. Warner came to a vast and beautiful land filled with rolling hills, wetlands, and lush trees. He arrived in 1677, five years before William Penn founded his utopian city. The Quaker William Warner was the first European to settle in West Philadelphia.
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