This is an art workshop and lantern light parade to honor the Underground Railroad in Frankford, hosted by our friends at Riverfront North Partnership! *Please pre-register on Eventbrite here. FREE […]
By Vary Soth, TTF Intern How did Tacony Creek Park look many years before we were born? Were there many differences? What has changed? TTF and partner Olney Culture Lab […]
By Vary Soth, TTF Intern Tookany/Tacony-Frankford (TTF) Watershed Partnership is partnering with Ambrose Liu of the Olney Culture Lab and Dr. Matthew Smalarz of Manor College to record in-person interviews with community members as […]
By Rita Yelda TTF is partnering with Ambrose Liu of the Olney Culture Lab and Dr. Matthew Smalarz of Manor College to record in-person interviews with community members as part […]
The Past and Future of Tacony Creek Park: An Interview with Lisa Kuzma, Director of Olney Christian School By Rita Yelda Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) is partnering with Ambrose Liu […]
Guest blog, originally posted in Extant Magazine’s Winter 2019 edition here When Fisher’s Lane Bridge was built across Tacony Creek in the late 18th century, its namesake roadway connected Frankford […]
Fred Maurer, a historian from Frankford Historical Society and Robin Irizarry of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership will be hosting a presentation about The Whitaker Mills. Join them Tuesday, December 11 […]
Fred Maurer, a historian from Frankford Historical Society and Robin Irizarry of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership will be hosting a presentation about The Whitaker Mills. Join them Tuesday, December 11 […]
Written by Katie Haines, TTF intern TTF has kicked off a two-year Tacony Creek Park Stories project to share the voices of park neighbors. The goal of this two part […]
Philadelphia was once laced with a complex system of streams and tributaries, many of which are now hidden underground. In the 19th and 20th centuries, these streams were rechanneled into […]
Philadelphia was once laced with a complex system of streams and tributaries, many of which are now hidden underground. In the 19th and 20th centuries, these streams were rechanneled into […]
By Jon Musselman, Upstream Municipal Watershed Planner “Sawmill Creek” sounds like a name you’d hear in the Poconos or Catskills, not Philadelphia. Looking at Cheltenham’s Lynnewood Gardens and Melrose Park, […]
TTF Watershed Public Leader Drew Brown and Adam Levine, Philadelphia Water Department Few people know the enigmatic history of Philadelphia’s lost waterways better than Adam Levine and Drew Brown. Adam has researched […]
Our region has experienced centuries of settlement, agriculture, industry and development. Since William Penn arrived in the 1600s, our creeks have been on the receiving end of residents’ dirty leftovers. […]
The land we know as Philadelphia was once crisscrossed by a network of streams and creeks. These swift flowing waterways were one of the primary reasons European settlers were attracted to […]
On Saturday October 10, TTF hosted a watershed history walk led by Bob Thomas of the Philadelphia Parks Alliance. This two-part walk took us through some of historic Frankford, followed by a walk up through […]
We recently hosted our very first guided history tour through Tacony Creek Park! Despite light rain, our adventurous group met on June 27 at the I St. and Ramona Ave […]
Curtis Arboretum, one of Cheltenham Township’s historic park treasures, is in the midst of a community-driven planning process, whose goal is to develop the arboretum into one a widely enjoyed […]
