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4 unusual facts about Fairmount Park


Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia

The club made its debut on the diamond in April 2010 and plays many of its home matches at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, located in the West Philadelphia section of the city.

Fairmount Park, Seattle

The Fairmount Park neighborhood of West Seattle in Seattle, Washington, runs along both sides of Fauntleroy Way SW from SW Graham Street in the south to SW Edmunds Street in the north.

Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad

Just after crossing the river, it traveled up the Belmont Plane, an inclined plane in the current location of West Fairmount Park, and continued west across the eastern part of the state to Columbia, where the Columbia Plane headed down to the Susquehanna River.

The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand

Eakins set the finished painting in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, at a location just north of Memorial Hall.


George A. Frederick

Druid Hill Park ranks with Central Park in New York City, begun in 1859, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia as the oldest landscaped public parks in the United States.

Girard Avenue Bridge

It connects the east and west sections of Fairmount Park, and the Brewerytown neighborhood with the Philadelphia Zoo.

Robert E. Lee Memorial Park

It formed the third largest municipal landscaped park in the country (after Central Park in New York City and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia).

SEPTA Route 15

The Richmond and Schuylkill River Passenger Railway was chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on March 26, 1859 to operate along Girard Avenue between the Girard Avenue Bridge over the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park and Norris Street in Richmond, with an extension authorized west over the bridge to Lancaster Avenue.


see also

Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club

The Fletcher Street club stables are located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of north Philadelphia, on the edge of Fairmount Park.

Sedgeley

It was rescued from demolition and converted to office space in the 1990s by the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust and is currently occupied by Outward Bound.