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The park was the site of the 1876 Centennial Exposition and the first zoo in the United States, the Philadelphia Zoo, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Wissahickon Valley Park, located adjacent to the park's immediate northwest, was included in the Fairmount Park NRHP registration document. [2]
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 .
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.
Bounded by Fairmount Park, Cherokee Street, Hartwell Lane, and Valley Green Drive 40°03′33″N 75°12′52″W / 40.0592°N 75.2144°W / 40.0592; -75.2144 ( Druim Moir Historic Chestnut Hill
The park is located at 2601 Fairmount Boulevard, and lies SouthEast of the Santa Ana River with Route 60 to the North. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe eating advisory for any fish caught in Lake Evans, in the Western portion of the park, due to elevated levels of mercury and PCBs.
Original: Lincoln Drive, Wissahickon Valley Current: Kelly Drive, East Fairmount Park (south of Strawberry Mansion Bridge) Fairmount Park Art Association Mrs. Richard Davis Wood, donor granite In its original location, c.1895. Note the metal cup chained to the fountain: Relocated to Kelly Drive, year [59] [60] Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Kates ...
Cresheim Creek before it meets Wissahickon Creek. Cresheim Creek is a creek in southeastern Pennsylvania.Rising at Wyndmoor in Springfield Township (in a park near the USDA's Agricultural Research Service Eastern Regional Research Center, adjacent to the border between Montgomery County and Northwest Philadelphia), it runs about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) southwest, passing through part of Northwest ...
The historic houses within the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park are also not included though that park was previously within the Fairmount Park system. Since 2010, all park areas and facilities are administered separately after the merger of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation into the new Philadelphia Parks ...