Topics Streams & Rivers

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

Schuylkill River at Rockland Landing (Picturesque America)

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Wingohocking Sewer across Penn St.

Black-and-white reproduction of the title page of an old periodical

19th century life in South Philadelphia’s marshland

Birkinbine Schuylkill Hydrographical Survey 1861-66

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