Topics Landscape Changes

Still on the Map: Poquessing Creek and its Tributaries

The pipe beneath the rocky path

Map Lovers’ Monday: New Jersey 1869

Map Lovers’ Monday: Topography of Philadelphia from 1863

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

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

Dripps map of Frankford and vicinity, 1849

Plans and maps of the Pennypack Creek Watershed in Philadelphia

Mount Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum