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The Schuylkill River (/ ˈ s k uː l k ɪ l / SKOOL-kil, [1] locally / ˈ s k uː k ə l / SKOO-kəl) [2] is a river in eastern Pennsylvania.It flows for 135 miles (217 km) [3] from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries.
The Schuylkill River Trail (/ ˈ s k uː l k ɪ l / SKOOL-kil, [1] locally /-k əl /) [2] is a multi-use trail along the banks of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania.Partially complete as of 2018, the trail is ultimately planned to run about 140 miles (230 km) from the river's headwaters in Schuylkill County to Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia.
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Schuylkill River, from the Delaware River upstream to the source. All locations are in Pennsylvania and Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) survey numbers are noted where available.
This is a list of cities, boroughs, and communities along the Schuylkill River in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. The default sort in the following table is from the source downstream to the Delaware River .
Perkiomen Creek is a 37.7-mile-long (60.7 km) [1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. [2] Historically, the water course was also named Perquaminck Creek , on Thomas Holme 's 1687 map of the region, which was published by William Penn , founder of the colonial -era Province of Pennsylvania .
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.
Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the valley of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania. The heritage area extends from Pottsville to Philadelphia through Schuylkill , Berks , Chester , Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. [ 1 ]
The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a commercial waterway in the early 19th-century. Chartered in 1815, the navigation opened in 1825, to provide transportation and water power.