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Yes. North 18th Street in the Germantown area of Philadelphia.

The first A.H. Fox Gun Co. factory in Philadelphia was at Wayne & Bristol Streets, in 1905-06. In late 1906, Ansley H. Fox bought the factory that had been built for Philadelphia Arms Co. at the 4600 block of North 18th Street & Windrim Ave., ground broken in August 1903. By 1906 Philadelphia Arms Co. was in receivership and was sold at a Sheriff's Sale July 3, 1906.

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The factory was bought by Philadelphia lawyer William MacGeorge Jr. On October 2, 1906, MacGeorge sold the factory to Ansley H. Fox, and later that year the A.H. Fox Gun Co. moved in.

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In 1926, the Godshalks that took over the A.H. Fox Gun Co. in 1912, moved the shotgun manufacturing into a new factory in the 4700 block of North 18th Street.

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