Topics Streams & Rivers

Map Lovers’ Monday: Topography of Philadelphia from 1863

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

2008 map showing historic Dock Creek with adjacent historical features

Map of Historic Dock Creek

Pennypack Park and Creek map, Roland Williams, 2005

Pennypack Park Map

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Noll’s New Official Guide Map of Philadelphia, 1897

Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek