Topics Landscape Changes

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

Sandy Run Watershed and the Holmesburg Water Works

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

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

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

Sewers, Pollution, and Public Health in 19th Century Philadelphia

Oak Lane Reservoir pipeline, 1904

The Water and Drainage History of Philadelphia: A seven-part course

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Two reports on the state of the Schuylkill River, 1867

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

Schuylkill River Hydrographical Survey 1861-66 by H. P. M. Birkinbine

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works

Duplex Pumping Engine, Belmont Works