Schuylkill River

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This picture shows the Schuylkill River. It travels through the city of Philadelphia.

The Schuylkill River is a river in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. It is 135 miles (217 km) long.^[1] It used to be called "Tool-pay Hanna" by the Lenape.^[2]

Schuylkill River Media

The Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park at dusk
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The Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River were once the source of Philadelphia's water supply and are now an attraction in Fairmount Park.
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An 1872 allegory of the Schuylkill River by William Rush now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Schuylkill River between Royersford and Spring City
Philadelphia skyline from South Street Bridge January 2020.jpeg

The Schuylkill River looking north toward Center City Philadelphia from South Street Bridge in January 2020

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
↑ Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker (1872). Annals of Phoenixville and Its Vicinity: From the Settlement to the Year 1871. Phoenixville, PA: Bavis & Pennypacker, printers. pp. 5.

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[NHD-1] U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011

[2] Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker (1872). Annals of Phoenixville and Its Vicinity: From the Settlement to the Year 1871. Phoenixville, PA: Bavis & Pennypacker, printers. pp. 5.

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