Topics Water Supply

A Brief History of Water in Northwest Philadelphia

Ghosts of Water in Fairmount Park, Part 1, with Adam Levine

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

The Discovery Center: The creative reuse of an abandoned city reservoir

Image shows multicolored trees and a river cutting through them with two bridges visible

Watersheds: Learning to care for and protect our local water resources

Black-and-white image of workers in a pit with a sewer opening behind them and text

Frankford Creek: Sad History of an Urban Stream title page

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

Pegg's Run

Pegg’s Run, Northern Liberties (Watson’s Annals)