Topics Water Supply

Map Lover’s Monday: Fairmount Park, 1869

Fairmount Park topographical map, showing East Park Reservoir, 1872

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

Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)

Wire Bridge at Fairmount

Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount (Picturesque America)

Dobson FLP

You would not have wanted to drink it: Philadelphia’s water supply in 1884

Pipe Aqueduct across Wissahickon Valley, 1868 (2004.057.0074.004)

Wissahickon Pipe Aqueduct, Roxborough to Mt. Airy, 1868

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

Hand-drawn and colored map depicting a river with streams branching off of it

Map Lovers’ Monday: 1891 Water Supply Plan

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, May 30, 1796

Plan of Philadelphia, John Hills, 1796

Queen Lane Reservoir pumping station

Queen Lane Pumping Station, proposed design

A man in glasses listening to the street through stethoscopes (2012.002.0043)

Listening for leaks