Topics Streams & Rivers

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

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, May 30, 1796

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, 1796

Black-and-white diagram showing streets and the Little Tacony Creek

Frankford Creek Watershed: A historical overview of the Philadelphia section

Dobson FLP

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

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Fairmount

Fairmount Water Works, about 1860