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BumRushDaShow

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14. Philly goes back to Billy Penn's "property" in 1682, as the Capital city of his new "Penns Woods"

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #12)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 07:23 PM

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The so-called "Rocky steps" at the Philly Art Museum sits on a hill that was once a big water reservoir, since it sits next to the Schuylkill River and they used "gravity" to supply water further east into town from there and then built the Fairmount Waterworks right there too for a water supply.

https://fairmountpark.weebly.com/fairmount-water-works.html

And I have been to fair Pittsburgh several times and even got on the Duquesne Incline!

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