Download or read book Flow written by Beth Kephart and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Along the Schuylkill River written by Laura Catalano and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A River Again written by Chari Towne and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Interesting History of the Schuylkill River written by Emily Stehr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting History of the Schuylkill River Definition of the Schuylkill River:

Download or read book Philadelphia s Pencoyd Iron Works Forging Along the Schuylkill River written by Kevin Righter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

Download or read book The Schuylkill River written by and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress Report on the Schuylkill River Project written by Schuylkill River Project Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Schuylkill River Desilting Project written by Schuylkill River Project Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Extent and Frequency of Floods on the Schuylkill River Near Phoenixville and Pottstown Pennsylvania written by William F. Busch and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inland written by Sandy Sorlien and published by George F Thompson Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Delaware River Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Schuylkill Navigation Company written by North American, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The articles which compose the body of the following pamphlet, were originally published as leading editorials in the North America."--Introductory note

Download or read book Schuylkill River Water Trail Guide written by Schuylkill River Greenway Association and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Results of Examinations of Water from the River Schuylkill written by Charles M. Cresson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by Pennsylvania. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Progress Report on the Schuylkill River Project written by Schuylkill River Project Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fourth Progress Report on the Schuylkill River Project written by Schuylkill River Project Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: