Table of Contents:

A list of the pages and external image, movie and sound files at this site

The Schuylkill River (Home Page)

• Home Page Image.GIF, 39K
• The Schuylkill River Watershed
• Watershed
• Transportation
• Lenni Lenape
• Lenape Paths.jpeg, 39K
• Communities
• Watershed
• Biological Communities
• The Water Cycle and Water Quality Issues
• Human Uses of Water and Their Impact
• History of Philadelphia Drinking Water
• Drinking Water Today
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Recreation
• Take a river tour of the Schuylkill Watershed
• Transportation
• More Details about the Schuylkill Watershed
• Firsts
• The first inhabitants of the Schuylkill Valley
• Philadelphia's First Citizen
• The first covered bridge in America
  This is a beautiful site, but contains some very large graphics! Be prepared to wait!
• The first European to visit the Schuylkill
• The first Map of the Schuylkill
• Last
• Immigrants - the last Americans
• Sustainability - the last resources
• Nation
• History of the United States
• The Center for American History at the University of Texas
• A huge index to World and US historical resources at the University of Kansas
• The Library of Congress
  • The American Memory Archives
  • The Detroit Company Photo Archives of the Eastern United States from 1880 - 1920
  • Electronic exhibits (includes the Gettysburg Address)
• US History Archives at Mississippi State University
• Online issues of Civil War era newspapers, from Staunton, VA and Chambersburg, PA (large image files, not text)
• Numerous history links, including geneologies
• Origins of the Nation-State and World History Links
• The Library of Congress' exhibit on the history of the Vatican.
• a shorter text extract.
• A huge Index to World and US historical resources at the University of Kansas
• Boundaries
• Modern maps of the Schuylkill Watershed
• A large-scale (398K) map of Eastern Pennsylvania
• A smaller (61K JPEG) version of the same map
• US Geological Survey
• Geography Links
• The Franklin Institute Geography Resources list
• Maps of the United States through history
• Hourly Weather maps
• Shifting
• Industry in the Schuylkill Valley
• Shifting waves of Immigration
• "Ports of Call" along the river
• Life Shifts: The Ecosystem
• Constitutes
• Cultural and Ethnic Components of the United States
• The Ethnic Heritage Council, with many links to ethnic organizations
• Ethnic foods & recipes
• Governmental Components
• Cities
• More Cities
• States
• More States, in fact a list of lists at the Library of Congress


• Bioregional Components
• Community
• Communities of Learners
• SCHOOLS! and other online educational resources
• Cultural Communities
• Information about a regional community of bicycling enthusiastics.
• This is a Canadian Cultural Community online -devoted to the arts in Canada
• UTNE Reader's website, devoted to critical examination of our society and our culture
• Social / Economic Communities
• a Community Planning workshop
• Spiritual Communities
• The Krishnamurti Foundation of America
• Virtual Communities - there are two types of online communities:
• Those that exist in the real world and have a presence on the Web:
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• All sorts of community links courtesy of the Galaxy
• Central New York Net - one example of a regional, community-based network
• And those that exist only in virtual space:
• The WELL
• Howard Rheingold
• Virtual communities

• Exhibit Map.GIF, 33K
• Glossary of terms
• Index to resources
• Table of contents (you are already here!)
• Educational Resources
• Bibliography
• Educational Activities
• Online Resources

• Charlestown Township Map.GIF, 22K
• Hartman Run.AIFF, 88K
• Charles Pickering
• An old access bridge across the Pickering.JPEG, 28K
• A view downstream from that bridge.JPEG, 26K
• A picture of the old Ice Dam.JPEG, 30K
• Overflow at the Pickering Resevoir.JPEG, 16K

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