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• Lemon Hill
  bluff above the east bank of the Schuylkill River, Lemon Hill afforded an “elegant and extensive” prospect of the river view text) [Fig. 1]. In 1813 one
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• Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery
  an eminence fronting to the Schuylkill River, and his garden is on the declivity of the hill between his house and the river. We found him, with another
  50 KB (7,152 words) - 19:49, September 1, 2021
• Canal
  America. They consist of a basin, excavated, partly in the bed of the river Schuylkill, three feet deeper than low-water mark. . . The basin extends easterly
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Eminence
  (quoted in Gibson 1988: 5) “The celebrated works on the Schuylkill, by which the water of the river is raised to the top of an eminence which is elevated
  30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021
• Henry Pratt
  speculator. From 1799 until 1836, he was the proprietor of Lemon Hill, a Schuylkill River estate known for its geometric-style gardens, picturesque grounds,
  33 KB (4,445 words) - 21:19, October 5, 2021
• Statue
  economy and practicality. The fountain figure, entitled Allegory of the Schuylkill River (or Water Nymph and Bittern), was moved to Philadelphia’s Fairmount
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Belmont (Philadelphia, PA)
  Philadelphia Architects and Buildings; Belmont, a country estate on the Schuylkill River outside of Philadelphia, was the home of the English lawyer and jurist
  26 KB (3,226 words) - 13:56, August 11, 2021
• John Bartram
  late twenties, Bartram purchased farm land on the banks of the lower Schuylkill River a few miles from Philadelphia, reserving a half dozen acres for gardens
  39 KB (5,119 words) - 20:00, September 8, 2021
• Gray’s Garden
  overlooking the Schuylkill River was reportedly among the improvements that George Gray (1693–1748/49?) made at Lower Ferry, the river crossing that he
  48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
• Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
  the Insane, opened in 1841 on a rural site on the west side of the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, was considered one of the premiere mental asylums
  33 KB (4,371 words) - 21:34, August 25, 2021
• Drive
  riders to enjoy the natural and artificially constructed beauty of the Schuylkill River and Fairmount Waterworks, Gray’s Ferry, and Laurel Hill Cemetery in
  17 KB (2,266 words) - 18:18, September 3, 2021
• The Woodlands
  bluff overlooking a bend in the Schuylkill River—not only provided Hamilton and his guests with “spectacular views” of the river and surrounding landscape but
  110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
• Hannah Callender Sansom
  descriptions of various country houses situated along the banks of the Schuylkill River. In June 1762 she visited the estate of the late Tench Francis Sr.
  23 KB (3,065 words) - 21:24, October 5, 2021
• William Peters
  built Belmont, one of the earliest villa-retreats on the banks of the Schuylkill River, and laid out formal gardens there. Peters arrived in Pennsylvania
  10 KB (1,347 words) - 17:16, September 28, 2021
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  Revival country house, Sedgeley, on a wooded slope overlooking the Schuylkill River and for a national military academy (1800). He was also engaged in
  38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
• Samuel Vaughan
  fashionable pleasure garden recently opened at Gray’s Tavern on the Schuylkill River. With the aid of an English gardener and a team of laborers, Vaughan
  25 KB (3,188 words) - 21:31, October 5, 2021
• Springettsbury
  owned by successive generations of the Penn family, overlooked the Schuylkill River on the northern outskirts of Philadelphia. It was the site of the first
  35 KB (4,404 words) - 17:33, August 26, 2021
• Richard Peters
  agriculture. Richard Peters was born at Belmont, the estate on the Schuylkill River that his father, William Peters, was then in the process of developing
  17 KB (2,188 words) - 17:13, September 28, 2021
• Seat
  scenery.” Scott, Joseph, 1806, describing the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania (1806: 53) “The banks of the river are, in many places, adorned with beautiful
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• The Hills
  Walk; Wood/Woods See also: Springettsbury, Lemon Hill The Hills was the Schuylkill River estate of the influential British-born merchant, financier, and government
  24 KB (2,854 words) - 18:21, August 17, 2021

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