The area was once part of the plantation of
James Logan, adviser to
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. Modern transportation formed the community: the
Broad Street subway, which opened in 1928, and a thriving network of streetcar and bus routes, allowed development of what was then considered one of the earliest suburban communities in Philadelphia, though the area is considered urban today. The transportation network still provides Logan residents easy access to the rest of the city. On the East side of Broad St., Logan was a predominantly Jewish neighborhood until the 1960s. 11th Street was a center of commerce with two bakeries, a deli, and a dairy store. West of Broad, the neighborhood was predominantly Irish Catholic in the 1950s to early 1979s. Broad Street was the main shopping area for Logan, from Windrim to Rockland streets. This area had three movie theaters, The Logan, The Rockland, and The Broad, clothing shops, a hardware store, a shoe store and an ice cream shop, among others. In the 1970s,
Korean people began moving into Logan and established businesses. By the mid-1980s Koreans began moving out of Logan and into sections such as
Olney in Philadelphia, and nearby suburbs such as
Cheltenham as the area began to gentrify, as African-Americans and Hispanics, which accompanied the migration of Koreans into the neighborhood from the previous decade, began to populate the area, as Koreans began to migrate out of the Logan section and into the nearby suburbs further from Philadelphia. In 1980, the Fishers Lane Historic District was created, certifying 12
Second Empire and
Italianate architecture style buildings. ==Geography==