By March 1902, after overcoming difficulties procuring factory space, and a devastating flood of the Schuylkill River, Duryea was manufacturing one three-wheel, three-cylinder, gasoline powered automobile each week.
Philadelphia is a haven for rowers as the city offered access to world-class coaches, rowing equipment, and the Schuylkill River, which houses one of the largest regattas in the country and historic Boathouse Row.
Created evening lighting to bring out the beauty of the Victorian-era boathouses and their reflection on the Schuylkill River.
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.
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After crossing over the Paoli/Thorndale Line at the intersection with Belmont Avenue, the line passes by the Philadelphia Zoo near Exit 342 on the Schuylkill Expressway before crossing the Schuylkill River over the Girard Avenue Bridge.
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says that the neighborhood (which occupies one of the higher elevations in Philadelphia, on bluffs overlooking the Schuylkill River) was named "Andorra" after a fancied resemblance to the small country of the same name which sits astride the Pyrenees between France and Spain.
Great Minquas Path (or The Great Trail) was a 17th-century trade route that ran through southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna River, near Conestoga, to the Schuylkill River, opposite Philadelphia.
It immediately crosses the Schuylkill River on the Vine Street Expressway Bridge and comes to an interchange with 23rd Street and 22nd Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway that has access to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute.
Located between the Roxborough section of Philadelphia and the Whitemarsh Township community of Spring Mill, Miquon is approximately bounded by Barren Hill Road, Ridge Pike, Manor Road, and the Schuylkill River.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls is a stone and iron plate girder bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that carries two CSX Trenton Subdivision tracks over Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive).
Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge was built in 1885–86 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a formerly electrified, wrought iron, two-track, deck truss, (fixed shut) swing bridge across the Schuylkill River in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The area extends along the canal and left bank of the Schuylkill River, from Mont Clare past Port Providence.
Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the valley of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania.
In 1979, lights designed by architectural lighting designer Ray Grenald were installed to outline each of the boathouses, giving them a nightly Christmas-like gingerbread house appearance and reflecting in the Schuylkill River.
At the end of Starr, PA 29 makes a right onto the aptly named Bridge Street, crossing the Schuylkill River by way of the Mont Clare Bridge and entering Montgomery County in the process.
Many current and proposed sections of the Schuylkill River Trail, including the Thun Trail and the Oaks to Philadelphia portion, are rail trails, following the right-of-way of the former Schuylkill Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
University Avenue Bridge, crosses the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From its headwaters near Interstate 81, the river flows southeast through several water gaps in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, ending at its confluence with the Schuylkill River in Schuylkill Haven.