Topics Streams & Rivers

Cobbs Creek in the Days of the Old Powder Mill

1826 Report of the Committee of Delaware County on the subject of Manufactories, Unimproved Mill Seats, etc. in said county.

Black and white photo showing a wooden truss bridge over a creek

1882 Report from the Army Corps of Engineers on Navigation in Frankford Creek, Philadelphia

Typhoid Fever and sewage tainted drinking water: An 1889 report from the Philadelphia Board of Health

Kensington Water Supply in 1883

Requiem for a stream: Adams Run in Oak Lane

Technical drawing showing streets and sewers

Leverington Avenue Stormwater Sewer

Black-and-white image shows a trolley car emerging from a building with men standing alongside

Filling Low Land: A Story of Ash-Dumping in the Wingohocking Creek Watershed

Delaware River Harbor Police Report, 1884

Schuylkill River Harbor Police Report, 1884

Black-and-white image of a creek with people around it and a large building behind it

Dock Creek Sewer in 1849: A report on its condition made to City Councils

CITIZENS’ BUSINESS: 1939-1946