Reading Terminal Market and the city's public-market history

Reading Terminal Market opened in 1893 beneath the Reading Railroad train shed and has operated as a public indoor market since that time. The market has long been a major outlet for Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish vendors and a central site for specialty food stalls and longtime merchants, making it a continuous part of Philadelphia's food history. Its large, historic market building links the city's railroad and food-distribution past to present-day culinary culture.