Reading Terminal Market's long urban market tradition

Reading Terminal Market opened in 1893 beneath the Reading Railroad terminal and has operated continuously as a public market since then, hosting a wide range of merchants including long-running Amish vendors from Lancaster County. The Market occupies the former railroad shed and train shed structure, which is an important example of 19th-century urban market-railroad integration. It is both a culinary destination and a documented piece of Philadelphia's commercial and social history.