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Devil's Pool is a swimming area on the mouth of Cresheim Creek. As the ravine widens into the Cresheim, the waters gather in a basin surrounded on either side by rocky outcroppings before flowing into the Wissahickon Creek.
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 ...
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 .
Devil's Pool (Pennsylvania) the section of Cresheim Creek just before its confluence with Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia; Devil's pool, a form of pin billiards native to Australia, making use of upright obelisk-like "pins" as targets and/or obstacles, depending upon game variant; The Devil's Pool, the title generally given to English ...
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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 ...
Wissahickon may refer to the following in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Wissahickon, Philadelphia, a section or neighborhood of Philadelphia; Wissahickon Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River Wissahickon Memorial Bridge, spans the above creek in Philadelphia; Wissahickon Trail, a suburban trail
The Devil's Pool is the site of the local indigenous tribe's legend, which states how the Babinda Boulders were formed. The tale is about Oolana, a young woman from the Yindinji Tribe. After being promised to a respected tribal elder, she met a handsome young warrior called Dyga from another tribe and fell in love.