Water History PHL
Philadelphia’s Water Supply, Watersheds, and Sewers
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Blog Post
Typhoid, Water Filtration, and Public Health
When I talk about the historic effects of emptying the city’s sewage into the rivers from which we drew our water supply–a dangerous situation that water filtration plants built at the beginning of the 20th century, and sewage treatment plants at mid-century, have eliminated–I often mention various diseases that afflicted the population because of this.…
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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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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.
