A lone cyclist on the Schuylkill River Trail with spring blooms behind

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Water Nymph and Bittern
You may have noticed the fountain downriver of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center (FWW) is operational again after being off for some time...
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In 1781, General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, led French Army officers and men from Newport, Rhode Island south to meet up...
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Philadelphians and its visitors have been crossing the Schuylkill River at Market Street since the late 1600s by ferry and then by a floating bridge...
schuylkill generation station
In 1902, several local Philadelphia electrical companies consolidated to form the Philadelphia Electric Company. A year later, the company opened the...
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For more than a century, the Lower Ferry, or Gray's Ferry was the easiest way to access Philadelphia if you were traveling by land from the South...