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Fairmount Water Works: The Surprising History of an American Landmark

The pipe beneath the rocky path

Fairmount Water Works in High Resolution

Map Lovers’ Monday: Philadelphia in 1957, according to the Pennsy

Repurposing Old Infrastructure: Water History Video 5

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Early photographs of Fairmount and vicinity, 1848