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Author: Beth Kephart Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9781592136384 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
The Schuylkill River-the name in Dutch means "hidden creek"-courses many miles, turning through Philadelphia before it yields to the Delaware. "I am this wide. I am this deep. A tad voluptuous, but only in places," writes Beth Kephart, capturing the voice of this natural resource in Flow. An award-winning author, Kephart's elegant, impressionistic story of the Schuylkill navigates the beating heart of this magnificent water source. Readers are invited to flow through time-from the colonial era and Ben Franklin's death through episodes of Yellow Fever and the Winter of 1872, when the river froze over-to the present day. Readers will feel the silt of the Schuylkill's banks, swim with its perch and catfish, and cruise-or scull-downstream, from Reading to Valley Forge to the Water Works outside center city. Flow's lush narrative is peppered with lovely, black and white photographs and illustrations depicting the river's history, its people, and its gorgeous vistas. Written with wisdom and with awe for one of the oldest friends of all Philadelphians, Flow is a perfect book for reading while the ice melts, and for slipping in your bag for your own visit to the Schuylkill.
Author: Elizabeth Milroy Publisher: Penn State University Press ISBN: 9780271066769 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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"A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Laura Catalano Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738565484 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
The Schuylkill River got its name, meaning "hidden river," from Dutch settlers who discovered its mouth sequestered behind the Delaware River's League Island. It later became a river of revolutions. Along its banks Revolutionary War battles were fought, and George Washington's army famously camped at Valley Forge. Later the river helped fuel the Industrial Revolution with coal from Schuylkill County shipped to Philadelphia via the Schuylkill Canal. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad began here and grew into the largest corporation in the world. The iron and steel industry flourished along its waters. The Schuylkill River Desilting Project of the 1950s was the first large-scale cleanup of its kind and helped usher in an environmental revolution. The nation's first public water supply was developed here, and its first zoo and university overlook the river.
Author: North American, Philadelphia Publisher: ISBN: Category : Canals Languages : en Pages : 46
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"The articles which compose the body of the following pamphlet, were originally published as leading editorials in the North America."--Introductory note
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Public works Languages : en Pages : 2204
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors Publisher: ISBN: Category : Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Languages : en Pages : 52
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