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Wissahickon Valley Park is a large urban park that is located in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It protects 2,042 acres (8.26 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of woodland surrounding the Wissahickon Creek between the Montgomery County border and the Schuylkill River .
The village of Wissahickon was founded by officials of the Pencoyd Iron Works in the late nineteenth century. [1] Beginning in the 1880s, growing numbers of mill owners and wealthy business owners from neighboring Manayunk sought elegant homes on ample lots; they set their eyes on land previously owned by prominent Philadelphia families – including the Camac, Dobson, Salaignac, and Wetherill ...
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Wissahickon School District, in Montgomery County; Wissahickon (SEPTA station), a passenger rail station in Northwest Philadelphia; Wissahickon Skating Club, a non-profit skating club in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia; Wissahickon Valley Park, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; USRC Wissahickon (1904), one of two Winnisimmet-class ...
Park Neighborhood / Area Acres Ref. Fairmount Park: West: 2052 [7] Wissahickon Valley Park: Northwest: 2042 [7] Pennypack Park: Northeast: 1343 [7] Cobbs Creek Park: West, Southwest: 851 [7] Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park: South: 348 [8] Tacony Creek Park Northeast 304 [7] Benjamin Rush State Park: Northeast 275 [9] Poquessing Creek Park ...
Wissahickon Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania. [1]Wissahickon Creek rises in Montgomery County, runs approximately 23 miles (37 km) passing through and dividing Northwest Philadelphia before emptying into the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia.
Mom Rinker's Rock is a scenic outlook in Wissahickon Valley Park along the Wissahickon Creek in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located on a ridge on the eastern side of the park just a little north of the Walnut Lane Bridge, close by the statue dedicated to Toleration.
The Ridge Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia is a historic bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A triple-span stone arch bridge built in 1888, it carries Ridge Avenue over the Wissahickon Creek. It is the last crossing of the creek before it empties into the Schuylkill River. Four other stone arch bridges cross the Wissahickon. [2]