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The mouth of the Poquessing Creek on the Delaware was first proposed as the site for William Penn's Philadelphia, and for many years was known as "Old Philadelphia." The Poquessing watershed drains portions of Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Bucks counties, including the municipalities of Philadelphia, Upper Southampton, Lower Southampton, Lower Moreland, and Bensalem. The watershed encompasses approximately 21.5 square miles of area. The name Poquessing comes from the Lenni Lenape "Poetquessnink," meaning "place of the mice." Poquessing Creek and its tributary streams have largely excaped the "channelization" process that has transformed other this process was seen as creating many problems. In the late 1950s newly developed housing was built with curving through streets that conformed to the natural topography of the area, avoiding the need to fill in or level the terrain. The Morrell Park neighborhood was the first in Philadelphia to follow this new pattern , avoiding for years any development close to the stream valley of Byberry Creek, which flows through and about the neighborhood before its confluence with the Poquessing (though later years saw development much closer to the stream than originally envisioned). Channelization of the Poquessing affected only a tiny unnamed stream near Stevenson Lane and Grant Avenue. [http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=burl06sw.jpg&state=PA] Of course, though Byberry Creek and its two branches, Wilsons Run and Waltons Run , remain free flowing, their entire courses are owned and operated by the city as an integral part of the city's storm sewer system, and are so marked on city departmental maps. Despite this circumstance, they have lovely courses during low water flows. TRIBUTARIES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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: ("Changes in the Names of Streams In and About Philadelphia." ''Public Ledger Almanac: 1879''. Pages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, & 13 {Link without Title} ) |
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