Watersheds Wingohocking Creek Watershed

Photograph of Roberts Mill on Wingohocking Creek in Germantown, built in the late 17th century. (Photograph by J. C. Browne, 1871. Castner Collection/Free Library of Philadelphia)

Roberts Mill, Wingohocking Creek, 1871

Wingohocking Sewer outfall into Frankford Creek

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

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

Black-and-white photograph depicts a large brick sewer tube lying on a barren landscape

Streams, islands, and ferries of early Philadelphia

Map showing the progression of the Battle of Germantown

Battle of Germantown map, 1777

Black-and-white photo of an ash car, side view, in the doorway of a barn with trees behind

Car 2615, Brill, 1909, Brill Curtis trucks

Black-and-white diagram of a Philadelphia ash car

Philadelphia Ash Service – Plan, Side and End Elevations of Car

Black-and-white photo of men, horses and a cart inside of a barn-like structure

Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.

Black-and-white image of a rail car with its door open

Ash car 2622, later P-13 and W-31

Black-and-white photo of a trolley car atop debris with several workmen around and atop it

Car 5615, later P-16 and the second D-31, Brill, 1911, Curtis C-1112 trucks

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Ash car 2618, later P-9 and W-29, PRT, 1908, Curtis C-1112 trucks