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PHILADELPHIA Fairmount Waterworks-Fairmount Park.
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Regd] Postcard No 5104. PHILADELPHIA.
Raphael Tuck & Sons, APHO YPE
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN.
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Fairmount Waterworks
FAIRMOUNT WATERWORKS FAIRMOINE PARK The
really started on Dec. 25th, 1822,
when three water wheels were set in motion. Philadelphia
this served as a model for others.
was the first city in the U. S. to possess a waterworks and
The power was obtained
by the erection in 1819 of a dam 1,248 feet long across the
Schuylkill River,
Miss Myra M Somers
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323 Grove st
Waterbury
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NERIEN 1902
UNITED STATES OF
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