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Paper Mill Run, also known as Monoshone Creek, is a small Tributary of Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA . Its watershed includes parts of the Mount Airy and Germantown neighhborhoods of Philadelphia. For most of its length the present-day stream flows under Lincoln Drive. The stream first sees daylight near Johnson Street. During the 18th century the stream possessed a small community of thriving mills, and dams were built along the creek to power the mills. William Rittenhouse , grandfather of the astronomer David Rittenhouse , built the first paper mill in America along Paper Mill Run in the late 1600s. This location was then known as Rittenhousetown . In recent years, the creek has suffered from high levels of pollution whose source is unclear, but which may have to do with leakage from a sewer line that is routed next to the buried stream along Lincoln Drive. A controversial wetlands restoration project in Saylor's Grove was built in 2006, in part an attempt to reduce the pollution of the stream by providing a natural buffer for some of the water flowing into it. REFERENCES
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