Neighborhoods Northwest Philadelphia

The Manayunk Expressway

Queen Lane Water Works (1894)

Manayunk and the Schuylkill Navigation

Roxborough Works (1869)

Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Manayunk, about 1895

Black-and-white image showing a factory, smokestacks and smoke, and streets

Dobson’s Mill, 1884, from History of Philadelphia by Scharf & Wescott

Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843

Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia and Vicinity (wd000516)

Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1883

Two bottles of water from a river, one dark with pollution and one clear after filtration

Water Before and After Roxborough