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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.
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 .
Sandy Run is a second-order stream (according to the Strahler stream order) that is a tributary to the Wissahickon Creek at Fort Washington State Park.The headwaters are in Dresher and Roslyn, Pennsylvania, and the stream flows west for approximately 6 miles (9.7 km).
Wissahickon Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River Wissahickon Memorial Bridge, spans the above creek in Philadelphia; Wissahickon Trail, a suburban trail; Wissahickon Formation, a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware; Wissahickon High School, in the borough of Ambler
Cave of Kelpius located near Wissahickon Creek. The so-called Cave of Kelpius is located by a small tributary stream of the Wissahickon in Philadelphia's present-day 1,372-acre (5.55 km 2) Wissahickon Valley Park. [4]
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 ...
Paper Mill Run, also known as Monoshone Creek, is a small tributary of Wissahickon Creek that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Its watershed includes parts of the Mount Airy and Germantown neighborhoods of Philadelphia. For most of its length, the present-day stream flows under Lincoln Drive.
The Evans-Mumbower Mill is an historic, American grist mill that is located on Wissahickon Creek in Upper Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]