Waterfront Recapturing the Waterfront: Philadelphia’s Drive to Establish Greenways along the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers

A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America, Thomas Holm, 1683 William Penn’s Original Street Layout for Philadelphia

John Bachmann. "Birds Eye View of Philadelphia" [Looking West from the Delaware River.] hand colored lithograph, Delaware River is in the foreground.

Market street from Delaware Avenue, 1900

View of Wharfs along the Delaware River in 1928

Children Enjoy A Dip in the Delaware River at Allegheny Avenue, 1918.

Clearing for the I-95 alignment in (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Looking southbound on I-95 with the Delaware River to the left

19 th Century View of the Fairmount Water Works Thomas Birch. "View of the Dam and Water Works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia." Philadelphia: Edward Parker, x 14 3/4. Engraving by R. Campbell.

The Philadelphia Inquirer “Memory Stream Dipping into Philadelphia's Illustrated Past” January 9, 2011 Historical Society of Pennsylvania Skaters enjoyed the frozen Schuylkill near Boathouse Row in The Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, now in Ardmore, occupied one of the houses in the 1800s.

Schuylkill River from South Street Bridge Looking North, circa 1902

Schuylkill at Market Street, 1934

The Schuylkill Expressway Opens in the 1950s

Schuylkill Expressway, Spring Garden Street Bridge, 1960

Society Hill

Washington Square

Northern Liberties