Schuylkill River
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The Schuylkill River is a river in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows for 135 miles from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia, the sixth-largest city in the US, where it joins the Del
The Schuylkill River with Center City, Philadelphia's skyline in the background, May 2024
The Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park at dusk
The Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River were once the source of Philadelphia's water supply and are now an attraction in Fairmount Park.
An 1872 allegory of the Schuylkill River by William Rush now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Erskine Hazard
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Erskine Hazard and his partner Josiah White were industrialists who developed infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeastern United States, which proved influential in usherin
A 19th century illustration of Hazard and Josiah White, his partner
Hazard assessed what was necessary to make the Lehigh River navigable, at least temporarily enough to float coal barges past obstacles and the constant grade road bed, which descended about 1,100 feet (340 m) in 9 miles (14 km) from Summit Hill to the coal chute designed by White to load barges in present-day Jim Thorpe.