Along The Schuylkill River
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Along The Schuylkill River
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Author : Laura Catalano
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Along The Schuylkill River written by Laura Catalano and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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.
Flow
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Author : Beth Kephart
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-26
Flow written by Beth Kephart and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-26 with History categories.
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.
Philadelphia S Pencoyd Iron Works Forging Along The Schuylkill River
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Author : Kevin Righter
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2020
Philadelphia S Pencoyd Iron Works Forging Along The Schuylkill River written by Kevin Righter and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
"Established on the Schuykill River in 1852, Philadelphia's Pencoyd Iron Works was a global leader in structural steel and wrought iron for more than eight decades. ... Author Kevin Righter constructs the immense history of the Pencoyd Iron Works."--Back cover
Interesting History Of The Schuylkill River
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Author : Emily Stehr
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-09
Interesting History Of The Schuylkill River written by Emily Stehr and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with History categories.
Interesting History of the Schuylkill River Definition of the Schuylkill River:
Extent And Frequency Of Floods On The Schuylkill River Near Phoenixville And Pottstown Pennsylvania
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Author : William F. Busch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Extent And Frequency Of Floods On The Schuylkill River Near Phoenixville And Pottstown Pennsylvania written by William F. Busch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Floods categories.
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area N H A Management Plan
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area N H A Management Plan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Distribution And Transport Of Trace Substances In The Schuylkill River Basin From Berne To Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Author : J. K. Stamer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Distribution And Transport Of Trace Substances In The Schuylkill River Basin From Berne To Philadelphia Pennsylvania written by J. K. Stamer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with River sediments categories.
Presents the results of the Schuylkill River Quality Assessment, chosen for study because of heavy use of the river for municipal water supplies and a history of accidental spills and discharges of trace substance in the heavily industrialized reach of the river between Reading and Philadelphia, Pa.
Inland
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Author : Sandy Sorlien
language : en
Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06
Inland written by Sandy Sorlien and has been published by George F Thompson Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06 with Photography categories.
The Schuylkill River flows more than 100 miles from the mountains of the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the Delaware River. It passes through five counties - Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia - and its valley is home to more than three million people, yet few are aware of the hidden ruins and traces left by a pioneering 200-year-old inland waterway: the Schuylkill Navigation. Some of it is literally buried in their own backyards.0Often called the Schuylkill Canal, this complex Navigation system actually boasted twenty-seven canals. The first of the anthracite-carrying routes in America, the 108-mile Navigation shadowed the Schuylkill River for nearly all its length. It once had more than thirty dams and slackwater pools, more than 100 stone locks, numerous aqueducts, and the first transportation tunnel in the nation. They were all built by hand starting in 1816.0In the 1940s, as part of a massive environmental cleanup of the river, this important and influential infrastructure was largely dismantled - but not entirely.What happened to the rest of it?0Photographer Sandy Sorlien resolved to find out. Over the course of seven years, she traveled upriver repeatedly to bushwhack along the riverbanks and to row and paddle in the river itself.0Along with Sorlien's full-color plates and explanatory essays, Inland features a selection of historic images, rare historic Schuylkill Navigation Company maps, and early Philadelphia Watering Committee plans. The book also includes a foreword by renowned landscape scholar John R. Stilgoe, an essay on regional transportation history by Mike Szilagyi, Trails Project Manager for the Schuylkill River Greenways Natural Heritage Area, and an afterword by Karen Young, Director of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center.
A River Again
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Author : Chari Towne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-09
A River Again written by Chari Towne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-09 with Schuylkill River Watershed (Pa.) categories.
In a short time, the Schuylkill went from being considered waters of "uncommon purity" to being this country's dirtiest river. That distinction resulted in the Schuylkill River becoming the focus of a precedent-setting river cleanup effort from 1947 to 1951.The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hired a team of engineers to free the Schuylkill from the millions of tons of coal sediment that had filled its bed and raised its floodplain.The Schuylkill River Project Engineers dredged the river and trapped sediment in desilting pools, the kind of practices that river restorations are undertaken to undo today. But at the end of the project, the Schuylkill emerged A RIVER AGAIN.
Progress Report On The Schuylkill River Project
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Author : Schuylkill River Project Engineers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Progress Report On The Schuylkill River Project written by Schuylkill River Project Engineers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.