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

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Old U. S. Navy Yard

Schuylkill River from below the South Street Bridge, 1873

Philadelphia from Belmont, West Park (Picturesque America)

Schuylkill River above Belmont (Picturesque America)

Coal Depot, Richmond, on the Delaware (Picturesque America)

Navy Yard on the Delaware River (Picturesque America)

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Chestnut Street Bridge, on the Schuylkill River (Picturesque America)

Appletons' Journal Schuylkill, 1869

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

Overhead image of the Fairmount Dam Fishway and the surrounding area, including the Art Museum, Boathouse Row and the Fairmount Water Works

Fairmount Dam Fish Ladder diagram