John Summerfield Staples

Historical marker location:

Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (Business U.S. 209) and Dreher Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1999

(1845-1888).

Philadelphia is home to the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the United States, the Reading Terminal Market, which opened in 1893.