Neighborhoods Fairmount Park

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

The Discovery Center: The creative reuse of an abandoned city reservoir

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works

Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram

The Fairmount Dam Fishway sign, detailing how the fishway works and showing maps and images of fish migration and barriers along the Schuylkill River.

Fairmount Dam Fishway sign

PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass

PWD’s Jay Cruz with a striped bass

Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad

PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway

Wissahickon near Paper Mill Bridge, 1873

Wissahickon Creek near the Paper Mill Bridge (Picturesque America)

The Day Fairmount Dam Vanished