Topics Water Supply

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Bird's eye color view of reservoirs, green areas of foliage, pink roads and blue water, with a dam prominent

Fairmount and vicinity, 1839

Upper Roxborough filter beds

Upper Roxborough filter beds under construction, July 1902

Drawing in blue ink on beige paper depicting reservoir, dam and standpipe heights

Diagram showing heights of reservoirs, dams, standpipes &c, 1894