Wissahickon Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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10 Facts About Wissahickon Creek
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Unique and very distinctive rock of the Wissahickon Creek valley is Wissahickon schist, the predominant bedrock underlying the Philadelphia region, found over a broad swath of southeastern Pennsylvania from Trenton into Delaware and Maryland.
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Long gone were the religious mystics; here instead the mills of Wissahickon Creek made paper, cloth, gunpowder, sawed lumber, milled wheat and corn, and pressed oil from flax.
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Benjamin Franklin already had noted in his will the high elevation and quality of Wissahickon Creek water, proposing that in some future day the stream be dammed to supply a safe and pure water source for Philadelphia's water supply, and even allocating funds for this purpose.
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Several decades later the Schuylkill River itself became seriously polluted by sources in the coal fields far upstream beyond Philadelphia's control, but the waters of the Wissahickon Creek had been restored and the beauty of the Wissahickon Creek Valley had been preserved.
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Reason the Wissahickon Creek Valley retained its wilderness character, even after its clean waters were no longer essential to the water supply of the city of Philadelphia, was the advent of Romanticism and the changing attitudes which this thought engendered about nature.
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Wissahickon Memorial Bridge, known as Henry Avenue Bridge, is a stone and concrete bridge that carries Henry Avenue over Wissahickon Creek, joining Roxborough and the East Falls-Germantown neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
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The Wissahickon Creek Valley is one of fewer than 600 National Natural Landmarks in America.
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Erratic and almost forgotten novelist George Lippard frequently wrote about the Wissahickon Creek, and was even married at sunset on or around May 14,1847, on a rocky crag called Mom Rinker's Rock, overlooking the stream.
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Wissahickon Creek is mentioned very briefly in A Biography of the Poet, Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims.
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