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The Fairmount Water Works was constructed in 1812 to pump water out of the Schuylkill River to serve the bustling City of Philadelphia. As Philadelphia rose into an industrial powerhouse, it was the first large American city to regard the delivery of safe water as a municipal responsibility. Powered by the river, pumps raised water into reservoirs high atop a nearby hill, Faire Mount. Almost from the day the waterwheels began turning, the graceful neoclassical buildings and beautiful grounds made the place an international tourist attraction renowned for melding nature and technology.
Today the Water Works is an Interpretive Center that offers visitors information about the impact of water on their daily lives, and how they in turn impact their water supplies. The Interpretive Center features a variety of hands on, highly interactive exhibits including a live view of the the Fairmount Dam fish ladder and a flyover of the Schuylkill River watershed.
Fairmount Park is a huge urban park in Philadelphia, PA.
For more information:
www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/attractions/fairmount-park/
W003 heads south at track speed through Fairmount on the Etowah Sub with 9969, CSX's unique GP40WH-2 that is used exclusively for one of their two Geometry trains that traverses their system year round. 1-29-20
I've very late for #tbt but it's still Thursday for a little more than an hour. Going with the Memorial Day theme, here's a photo from the veteran's section of Fairmount Cemetery on a foggy day back in March of 2006.