Wissahickon Valley Park

Year

1868

Type

landscape

By 1850 more than fifty watermills lined Wissahickon Creek, grinding wheat and corn and turning out paper, cloth, gunpowder, sawn lumber and pressed linseed oil. Philadelphia took the valley to stop that industry from fouling its drinking…

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Brian W. Schaller · FAL
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Eliott, Joseph Related names: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor · Public domain
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