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Description Modern days (since 1822) Schuylkill River Falls at the 'Fairmount Dam' opposite the Fairmount Water Works (white builing in right side of view) near the Philadelphia Zoo, and... not to be confused with the 'Falls of the Schuylkill', which was a rapids stretch (cataracts) some few streets above this view along river stretch near Wissahickon, PA and with an upper end near today's East Falls, PA (which had a landing for portaging down the cataracts) neighborhoods in North Philadelphia.[1] The 'Schuylkill Falls' themselves, the 'Falls of the Schuylkill' mentioned in 18th & 19th-century histories were inundated and submerged by the construction in 1822 of the Fairmount Dam depicted in the picture. The works concurrently involved the completion of the Schuylkill Canal, which was an important commercial freight artery into the 1930s.
Date Taken on 3 March 2007
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Camera location39° 57′ 54.84″ N, 75° 10′ 58.16″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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  1. ↑ Falls of the Schuylkill location. The area: "Industrial activity marked the early history of the Schuylkill River and nearby waterways. Even before the fishery of Fort St. Davids was established by Welshmen at the Falls of the Schuylkill in 1734, other settlers were building mills along the Wissahickon Creek and the Falls Creek streams in Pennsylvania.
       ■Don't bother trying to find the 'Schuylkill Falls' themselves, however. The Fairmount Dam, constructed in 1822, raised the river's water level and obliterated the rapids. The area near the present library was a brewery from 1873 to 1894. After it fell into disrepair, the springs turned it into a swimming hole."

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39°57'54.839"N, 75°10'58.159"W

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