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David McShane painted this memorial to Mantua anti-drug crusader Herman Wrice for Mural Arts Philadelphia in 2000. The original mural covered a wall at 33rd & Vernon streets, but was hidden from view by later construction. The recreated version, shown here, is located on the northwest corner of 33rd Street and Haverford Avenue.
Mantua on 33rd Street above Spring Garden Street; Drexel University in far background.
Hannah and Frederick Schoff raised their seven children at 3418 Baring Street (right twin) in Powelton, shown in this contemporary photo. The Schoffs moved here in the early 1880s and expanded the house to fit their famiy's needs. It was here that Hannah edited the National Congress of Mothers' journal Child Welfare (later National Parent-Teacher). She continued to live at 3418 Baring until her death in 1940.
Historical marker honoring Thomas E. Miller at the house he and his wife owned at 3405 Hamilton Street in Powelton.
Mill Creek Farm, the second large-scale gardening project in the footprint of the buried floodplain, launched in 2006 at 4901 Brown Street.
Contemporary photo of the former Sulzberger Middle School, where the West Philadelphia Landscape Project, in the early 2000s, developed a curriculum and after-school component for middle-schoolers' study of urban watersheds and the Mill Creek buried floodplain. Today the Sulzberger building is home to two schools: Parkway West High School and Middle Years Alternative for the Humanities.
University City Garden Club garden, on the south side of Locust at 44th Street, covers a formal residential site undermined by abrasion of the Mill Creek sewer pipe
Contemporary photo of the footprint of Mill Creek's buried floodplain, following 47th Street, between Fairmount Avenue and Aspen Street, below the embankment of the former Sulzberger Middle School. The 1927 Atlas of West Philadelphia (G.W. and W.S. Bromley), plate 6, shows numerous rows in this swath.
Mill Creek leaves Montgomery County and enters the West Philadelphia sewer culvert, near the intersection of 63rd Street and City Line Avenue, across City Line from Overbrook Station.
Once the Mill Creek Pond in Maylandville, today the "bowl" in Clark Park, between Chester and Kingsessing avenues.
