Wayne L. Bowen says I'm all wet calling the long narrow body of water beside Adamsdale Road the former Schuylkill Canal. He says it is the Schuylkill River's original bed, though he's not sure when the river was moved to its current location farther southeast.
Rivers do move around.
Now Babylon is a dusty pile of bricks in Iraq. Changes in the Schuylkill River bed were mostly the work of man - like eliminating a watery hairpin turn, south of Port Clinton. I used to live in Landingville and spent many pleasurable hours strolling through that swamp observing the various kinds of turtles, amphibians, insects and birds. For most, the birds are the main attraction, and birders come from far and wide to the Landingville Marsh. On Memorial Day I was walking along the path when this fellow rounded a curve, raised his field glasses towards a tree in my direction, and held his hand up to me to stop.