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3 unusual facts about Cobbs Creek


Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia

Philadelphia architect William Alesker, whose latest project is a Trump Tower in Center City, and Evangelical minister Tony Campolo, one of Bill Clinton's spiritual advisers, lived, respectively, in the 6200 blocks of Pine and Delancey Streets back in the 1940s and 1950s.

Johan Björnsson Printz

The site of Printz's Mill on Cobbs Creek in Blue Bell, PA is indicated by a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Marker.

New Sweden

Fort Nya Vasa (1646) – located at Kingsessing, on the eastern side of Cobbs Creek near Cobbs Creek Parkway and Greenway Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.



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