![Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fishwaydiagram.jpg?w=300)
![Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fishwaydiagram.jpg?w=300)
![The Fairmount Dam Fishway sign, detailing how the fishway works and showing maps and images of fish migration and barriers along the Schuylkill River.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/fairmount-dam-sign-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Dam Fishway sign
![PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/striper_jay.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass
![An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/otter5.jpg?w=300)
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
![Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Joe_Amshad.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
![Fairmount Gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge. This 1839 engraving, published in London, shows a view of the South Garden from the walkways that brought visitors up the cliffside to the overlooks at the height of the reservoirs. The fountain used the pressure of the reservoirs and was a a delightful refreshment in hot weather, and a wonder at all times. One anachronistic element of this engraving is the Upper Ferry Bridge, which burned the year before the print was published. Harding’s Hotel, a popular resort, is at the western end of the bridge.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_southgarden_750w.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Gardens with the Schuylkill Bridge, 1839
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State House Garden, Philadelphia, 1800
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New Market, in South Second Street, Philadelphia, 1800
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High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1800
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The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800
![Ornate black-and-white title page to the 1836 sheet music for The Fairmount Quadrilles](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0048-scaled.jpg?w=300)
The Fairmount Quadrilles, 1836
![Old Rosin the Beau for the Falcon Barge, J.C. Beckell (2008.001.0047)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0047-scaled.jpg?w=300)