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Fairmount Park

from the mouth of the Wissahickon Creek, south to Center City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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A view of Mount Laurel Cemetery and Hunting Park Avenue from Kelly Drive
Photo: Robert J. Moran

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The original Fairmount Park is the part of Philadelphia's park system that borders the Schuylkill River. The city now groups almost all of its city parks into one administrative whole called "Fairmount Park."

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Fairmount Park contains many of Philadelphia's other well-known landmarks including: the nation's first zoo; Boathouse Row; Robin Hood Dell; the Mann Music Center; Memorial Hall and several mansion houses.
Fairmount Park is named after the hill upon which the Philadelphia Museum of Art sits. It was named Fair Mount by William Penn and appears on his original plan of the city.
Fairmount Park was created when the city of Philadelphia purchased Lemon Hill, an estate owned by Henry Pratt. The idea was to buy the land just upstream of the Fairmount Water Works to protect the city's water supply. More and more land was eventually added to the original park on both sides of the Schuylkill River.
Fairmount Park was the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, the 100th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence.
For most city inhabitants, Fairmount Park is the park bordering the Schuylkill River from the Wissahickon to Center City. It is called Fairmount Park East and West under the city's administrative system called Fairmount Park.

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Fairmount Park

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