page_title: Schuylkill River
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Schuylkill River / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: The skyline of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania viewed from the South Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River
context_page_description: The Schuylkill River is a river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal. Several of its tributaries drain major parts of the center-southern and easternmost Coal Regions in the state. It flows for 135 miles from Pottsville to Philadelphia, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries.
  In 1682 William Penn chose the left bank of the confluence upon which he founded the planned city of Philadelphia on lands purchased from the native Delaware nation. It is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River, and its whole length was once part of the Delaware people's southern territories.
  The river's watershed of about 2,000 sq mi lies entirely within the state of Pennsylvania, the upper portions in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachian Mountains where the folding of the mountain ridges metamorphically modified bituminous into widespread anthracite deposits located north of the Blue Mountain barrier ridge.
  Originating from waters in the Anthracite Coal Region, millions of tons of coal flowed into Philadelphia, once America's largest city, to feed the iron and steel industry.
caption: The Schuylkill River looking north toward Center City Philadelphia from the South Street Bridge
exif: {"Image Make": "Apple", "Image Model": "iPhone SE", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "12.1", "Image DateTime": "2020:01:12 14:07:45", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "204", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[39, 56, 4911/100]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[75, 11, 1247/100]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "46869/19265", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[19, 7, 45]", "GPS GPSSpeedRef": "K", "GPS GPSSpeed": "0", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "T", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "569423/8192", "GPS GPSDestBearingRef": "T", "GPS GPSDestBearing": "569423/8192", "GPS GPSDate": "2020:01:12", "GPS Tag 0x001F": "10", "Image GPSInfo": "1708", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "2112", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7702", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/1789", "EXIF FNumber": "11/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "25", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2020:01:12 14:07:45", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2020:01:12 14:07:45", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "37763/3495", "EXIF ApertureValue": "193685/85136", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "248395/23056", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "83/20", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "378", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "378", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4032", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3024", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "29", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[83/20, 83/20, 11/5, 11/5]", "EXIF LensMake": "Apple", "EXIF LensModel": "iPhone SE back camera 4.15mm f/2.2"}