Topics Water Supply

A Brief History of Water in Northwest Philadelphia

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

Pipe Aqueduct across Wissahickon Valley, 1868 (2004.057.0074.004)

Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868

The Chestnut Hill Works (1859-1911)