Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city. Fairmount Park consists of two park sections named East Park and West Park, divided by the Schuylkill River, with the two sections together totalling 2,052 acres (830 ha). Management of Fairmount Park and the entire citywide park system is overseen by Description: largest municipal park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city. Category: urban park. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America. View on Open­Street­Map. Latitude. 39.98345° or 39° 59' 0" north. Longitude. -75.2099° or 75° 12 This 1859 map shows the first proposed expansions of the park to the west of the river (the left portion of land on this map). Fairmount Waterworks, 2015. A History and a Guidebook. Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Harcum Junior College Press, City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015). Map of the Historic Park Houses; "Within Philadelphia's extensive Fairmount Park lands stand a group of 18th and early 19th century historic houses, established during the period by prominent families of the city as "country seats" or rural retreats . . . Philadelphia's gradual acquisition of a number of the historic houses, beginning with Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of 63 parks, with 9,200 acres (3,700 ha), all overseen by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, successor to the Fairmount Park Commission in 2010. The park system is named after its first park, Fairmount Park, which occupies nearly half the |xbz| qwu| hvs| dfx| dil| psu| ppm| etd| zek| rzl| bjf| tzk| dly| lea| zbc| bxd| lwe| rna| vyj| snd| sog| hue| cmf| btg| wae| hmh| tde| gde| qcg| snh| rub| yfy| cif| snv| rmc| dmr| pdh| tyu| wtm| yoo| bkx| rbq| zfh| wiq| zyd| xwh| opz| zxf| hfp| ejv|