Schuylkill River Trail Hike

september 2020

As part of my training for Camino Frances this is a first attempt at consecutive multi days hikes.
With this distance - it would be a very long Day on Camino, for sure 😁 Meer informatie

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- 5 sep. 2020 17:30
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Hoogte: 79 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Strawberry Mansion Fairmount Park Athletic Field 39.99417, -75.1925639°59’39” N 75°11’33” W
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Strawberry Mansion Bridge
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Ended hike here
18 miles 5 short of goal ☹️

The Strawberry Mansion Bridge was built in 1896–1897 by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under private ownership by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, which operated trolleys over the bridge, with pedestrian and carriage lanes on the north side. Trolley service was discontinued in 1946.

The Philadelphia Historical Commission designated the bridge as a historic structure on September 7, 1978.Meer informatie
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- 5 sep. 2020 16:39
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- Hoogte: 46 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania City of Philadelphia East Falls Falls of Schuylkill 40.00899, -75.1967740°0’32” N 75°11’48” W
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East Falls Bridge
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
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- 5 sep. 2020 15:25
- ☀️ 79 °F
- Hoogte: 52 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Manayunk Boone Park 40.02403, -75.2220340°1’27” N 75°13’19” W
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Venice Island
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Venice Island is a piece of land formed by the Schuylkill Canal and the Schuylkill River, near Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a mill site in the 19th century
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- 5 sep. 2020 14:57
- ☀️ 81 °F
- Hoogte: 59 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Manayunk Boone Park 40.02519, -75.2237340°1’31” N 75°13’25” W
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Manayunk
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
My lunch (and what turned out to be - final) break on the Manayunk Canal Towpath

Opened nearly two hundred years ago, in 1819, the Manayunk Canal was a key link in the hundred mile long Schuylkill Navigation system. Built to bring coal to the coastal cities and ports by way of canal barge, the waterway was soon overshadowed by the network of railroads then being built. After peaking in the 1850s, traffic on the canal dwindled each year with the final commercial boat passing in 1922.Meer informatie
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- 5 sep. 2020 14:00
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- Hoogte: 69 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Township of Lower Merion Rose Glen Ottinger Tract 40.04388, -75.2499840°2’38” N 75°14’60” W
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Shawmont Station
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Shawmont is a former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the oldest surviving passenger railroad station in the United States, built in 1834 by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, the city’s first rail company and is believed to have been built by renowned architect William Strickland.

http://www.preservationalliance.com/endangered/…

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- 5 sep. 2020 12:01
- ☀️ 75 °F
- Hoogte: 82 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Township of Whitemarsh Spring Mill Lee Park 40.07411, -75.2861240°4’27” N 75°17’10” W
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Spring Mill Station
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
My second brake of the day.

The original station was established by the Reading Railroad about 1880, and took its name from the nearby 18th-century grist mill.
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- 5 sep. 2020 10:39
- ☀️ 73 °F
- Hoogte: 79 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Township of Plymouth Ernest Diamond Run 40.10101, -75.3194340°6’4” N 75°19’10” W
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Brad Fox Memorial
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
A Memorial to Bradly M. Fox, a Plymouth Township's Officer who made the ultimate sacrifice and tragically lost his life on duty. It was on Sept. 13, 2012. - the eve of his 35th birthday Brad was killed after responding to a hit and run on Ridge Pike on Sept. 13, 2012.
He pursued the suspect to the vicinity of Conshohocken Road and Ernest Station Road, near the Schuylkill River Trail, when the suspect shot him in the head and killed him.

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- 5 sep. 2020 10:10
- ☀️ 72 °F
- Hoogte: 79 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Bridgeport Sawmill Run 40.11089, -75.3385340°6’39” N 75°20’19” W
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Passing through Norristown
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Small Jib Crane shortly pass Morristown Transit Center

you can see the First Presbyterian Church steeple mid-left of the picture - about 5 blocks away
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- 5 sep. 2020 09:01
- ☀️ 66 °F
- Hoogte: 62 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Township of Upper Merion Eastburn Terrace Barbadoes Island 40.11555, -75.3549240°6’56” N 75°21’18” W
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Riverfront Park
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
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- 5 sep. 2020 07:46
- ☀️ 59 °F
- Hoogte: 108 ft
- Verenigde Staten Pennsylvania Township of West Norriton Betzwood Betzwood Park 40.11106, -75.417740°6’40” N 75°25’4” W
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Betzwood Studios
5 september 2020, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
Betzwood Studios werefounded by movie pioneer Siegmund Lubin.
D. W. Griffith filmed the first movie ever shot in Hollywood in 1910, but studios were not built there until 1913, long after Lubin had established himself in the Philadelphia area in 1898.
In 1912 Lubin bought the Montgomery County estate of brewer John Betz and began to develop Betzwood.
One of the films shot here was 1914 The Servant Girl’s Legacy- the earliest surviving film of Oliver Hardy

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