The Schuylkill Navigation: A Journey on the Historic Nineteenth Century Waterway
October 31, 2024
An excellent overview of this innovative transportation system, which is older than the Erie Canal.
Thomas Gill Maps of the Schuylkill Navigation, 1827
October 30, 2024
108 watercolor maps showing the Schuylkill Navigation in 1827. This hidden gem, from the Pennsylvania State Archives, is hidden no longer.
Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia Topography
October 28, 2024
A colorful map showing elevations in the city, from 0 to over 400 feet.
Map Lovers’ Monday: AQUA, in the beginning
October 21, 2024
The region’s largest private water supplier continues to grow, and grow, and grow…
Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia Geology, 1881
October 14, 2024
The bright colors of geological maps always lure me in.
Buried Treasures No. 2: Williamson Bros. Company
October 8, 2024
Is it any surprise that this North Philadelphia industrial establishment has been replaced by a shopping mall?
Map Lovers’ Monday: Two views of the Union Canal in central Pennsylvania
October 7, 2024
Rare maps of a mostly-forgotten Pennsylvania canal.
Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy
September 30, 2024
A 1957 map brochure from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Schuylkill Navigation: Celebrating 200 years
September 29, 2024
Learn more about the upcoming 200th birthday of Pennsylvania’s pioneering slackwater-canal system, with events all along the river in Spring 2025.
Map Lovers’ Monday: So many railroads!
September 23, 2024
Where have all the railroads gone?
Map Lovers’ Monday: Water for City Hall
September 16, 2024
Politicians may be a different breed from the rest of us, but even they need to drink.
Map Lovers’ Monday: The David Rumsey Map Collection
September 9, 2024
This remarkable map website offers endless opportunities for hours, or days, or weeks of browsing.