Water History PHL
Philadelphia’s Water Supply, Watersheds, and Sewers
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Blog Post
Map Lovers’ Monday: Circles of Destruction
How the government used circles on maps during the Cold War.
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MAP
Schuylkill River watershed, population in 1904
Map showing all the municipalities in the Schuylkill River watershed, and their populations as of 1900. The total population given on the map, 386,244, does not include the City of Philadelphia.
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Image
Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871
Also known as Townsend’s Mill, this grist mill stood on Wingohocking Creek from roughly 1683 until its demolition in the mid 1870s.
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Document
History of Belfield (1934)
1934 booklet about the Belfield estate in Olney. The house and various outbuildings are now part of the LaSalle University campus.