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![“Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay.” (From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Published by C.G. Childs & G. Lehman, 1833. Free Library of Philadelphia, Print & Picture Collection)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_FWW_castner-21_7_Crop_750w.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833
![This 1838 view of the Fairmount Water Works with the Schuylkill River in the distance, by John T. Bowen, “captures the pleasures of Fairmount in its heyday,” writes historian Jane Mork Gibson. “The neat beauty of the works set into a gentle landscape, steep paths and steps that offered an exhilirating contrast to the general flatness of Philadelphia, as well as the excitement of boat races on the river and refreshments offered in the former Engine House, all prompted the admiring comments of visitors.”](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_Bowen_0072_0019_001.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Water Works and the Schuylkill River, 1838
![Fairmount, bird's eye view from Lemon Hill (detail)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016.002.0071-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Park, bird’s eye view from Lemon Hill, detail
![Fairmount](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016.002.0037-scaled.jpg?w=300)
Fairmount Water Works, about 1860
![New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/2008.001.0046-scaled.jpg?w=300)
New Mill House at Fairmount
![Lemon Hill and Sedgley Park, Graff Jr., 1851 (Graff05.21)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/graff05.21-scaled.jpg?w=300)
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