Neighborhoods Northwest Philadelphia

Map Lovers’ Monday: Topography of Philadelphia from 1863

Map Lovers’ Monday: Schuylkill River from Wissahickon Creek to Norristown, 1913

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

Scenes on the Wissahickon

Scenes on the Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Wissahickon near Paper Mill Bridge, 1873

Wissahickon Creek near the Paper Mill Bridge (Picturesque America)

Drive Along the Wissahickon

Drive along the Wissahickon Creek Vallley (Picturesque America)

Thomas Mill Covered Bridge on the Wissahickon

Thomas Mill Covered Bridge over Wissahickon Creek (Picturesque America)

Sometimes the backside is the best side

Queen Lane Reservoir pumping station

Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design

Down Under III: A walk in the Dobson’s Run Storm Relief Sewer, June 15, 2010

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

Requiem for a stream: Still House Run in Manayunk

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

The Manayunk Expressway

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Manayunk and the Schuylkill Navigation

Roxborough Works (1869)

Germantown Works (1851) and Mt. Airy Works (1882)

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)

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.

Pipeline being laid in Wissahickon Avenue

Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Manayunk, about 1895

Panoramic Manayunk: Views Past and Present

Wheeled robotic sewer crawler in sewer pipe

Still photo from a video sewer inspection, 2000

Map showing the progression of the Battle of Germantown

Battle of Germantown map, 1777