![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-300x215.jpg)
![men standing around a trench with pipes seen crossing through it. there is a steam engine on wheels behind them to the left, and a building in the background on the right with a sign they says Hotel Abbey, T G Schmidt & Sons, Pilsner & Puritan Beer.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/9548198930_c3ff205628_o-300x215.jpg)
![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-300x201.jpg)
Fairmount Gardens with the Schuylkill Bridge, 1839
![Fairmount Water Works, by W. H. Bartlett, 1839. This engraving from an 1839 painting by William Bartlett shows the porch added to the Engine House about 1835 and the two gazebos built at the same time, all added to welcome visitors to the Water Works and a new saloon, or restaurant, in the Engine House. The powerful jet of water rising from the fountain in the South Garden, fed by a dedicated pipe under the full pressure of the reservoir, was depicted against the green foliage on the west slope of Faire Mount, near the east end of the Colossus. A barge is making its way downstream through the canal, headed under the Colossus to the busy port city of Philadelphia.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/05_Bartlett_FWW_1839_crop_750w-300x167.jpg)
Fairmount Water Works, W.H. Bartlett, 1839
![“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-300x164.jpg)
Fairmount Water Works from the forebay, 1833
![William Penn’s treaty with the Indians when he founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America. Painting by Benjamin West, 1771.](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West-300x209.jpg)
Treaty of Penn with Indians
![Black-and-white photo of men, horses and a cart inside of a barn-like structure](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Wingohocking-Ash-Cars-Cox-p79a-300x155.jpg)
Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Birch_03-300x256.jpg)
The City and Port of Philadelphia on the River Delaware from Kensington, 1800
![Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/A.3_FINAL_NorthLibandSpringgarden_W254_LCP-300x226.jpg)
Northern Liberties and Spring Garden Water Works
![Race Bridge, Fair Mount Water Works, 1834 (Graff05.63)](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/graff05.63-300x230.jpg)