Fairmount Park Commission

The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia ; it was formally incorporated in 1870.

After his death in 1955 James Dean was brought back to Fairmount and buried in Park Cemetery.

Dean graduated from Fairmount High School, and is buried in Park Cemetery in Fairmount.

In later years, he served on the Fairmount Park Commission and, during World War II, was appointed by President Roosevelt as National Director of Physical Fitness.

The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world.

Philadelphia's largest park, Fairmount Park, encompasses of this parkland and includes 63 neighborhood and regional parks.

The largest tract of Fairmount Park is on the west side of the city along the Schuylkill River and Wissahickon Creek and includes the Philadelphia Zoo.

Fairmount Park is the world's largest landscaped urban park.

Philadelphia is home to the United States ' first zoo and hospital, as well as Fairmount Park, one of America's oldest and largest urban parks.

* Fairmount Park, one of the largest city parks in the United States ( at one time it was the largest ), located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

* Fairmount ( town site is now Meadowcrest Industrial Park )

* at Fairmount Park Racetrack in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois in 1925 ;

A large crowd of fans paid tribute to him, passing by his coffin in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

It was held in Fairmount Park, along the Schuylkill River.

The Franklin Institute became an early supporter of the exposition and asked the Philadelphia City Council for use of Fairmount Park.

* John Ericsson fountain, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

* Fairmount Park

William Simpson & Sons established the Eddystone Print Works on the land that is now Eddystone in October 1873, after the land on which their previous factory had operated was condemned to make way for Fairmount Park.

Much of Ricketts Glen State Park is within Fairmount Township.

Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, President of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad and chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

U. S. Senator Edmund Muskie speaking to an estimated 40-60, 000 at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia on Earth Day, 1970

U. S. Senator Edmund Muskie was the keynote speaker on Earth Day in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.

It consists of 63 parks, with, all overseen by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, successor to the Fairmount Park Commission in 2010.

In the 1870s, the Fairmount Park Commission acquired industrial properties along the Wissahickon Creek although this is not considered Fairmount Park proper.

In 1858, the city called for a comprehensive plan and the new Fairmount Park Commission held a design competition to determine the best way to “ protect and improve the purity of the Schuylkill water supply ” while also creating a naturally landscaped public park.

Map of Fairmount Park Commission properties.

The Schuylkill Permanent Bridge ( Market Street Bridge ) in Philadelphia was adorned with his sculptures of Agriculture and Commerce ( 1812, whereabouts unknown ), William Strickland's Philadelphia Custom House featured another figure named Commerce ( 1819, whereabouts unknown ), and his sculptures of Wisdom and Justice ( by 1824, Fairmount Park Commission ) decorated a triumphal arch erected in front of Independence Hall for the 1824 visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

The largest collection of Rush's work can be found at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including Comedy, Tragedy, The Schuylkill Chained, The Waterworks, portrait busts, and the 1872 bronze casting of Water Nymph and Bittern ( on loan from the Fairmount Park Commission ).

The beauty of the Park is due largely to the efforts of Friends of Rittenhouse Square, a public-private partnership with the Fairmount Park Commission.

* Logan Square: City of Philadelphia official site ( Fairmount Park Commission )

In December 2004, Michael Karloutsos won a 25 year, $ 120, 000 / year lease with the Fairmount Park Commission.

The Fairmount office consisted of three rooms with no air conditioning.

In his history of the game, historian David Nelson concluded that the first forward passes were thrown on Christmas Day 1905 in a match between two small colleges in Kansas: " Although Cochems was the premier passing coach during the first year of the rule, the first forward passes were thrown at the end of the 1905 season in a game between Fairmount and Washburn colleges in Kansas.

" According to Nelson, Washburn completed three passes, and Fairmount completed two.

* A documentary film on two famous factories in Montréal, St Viateur and Fairmount

In 1972, Mayor Frank Rizzo found it unnecessary for taxpayers to fund two separate police departments, and merged the Fairmount Park Police into the Philadelphia Police, creating the Park Division.

Fairmount is divided between two attendance zones for Kindergarten through 8th grade:

The neighborhood is divided into two pieces by Fairmount Avenue: City Heights East and City Heights West.

The Fairmount Line itself has only five stations-three plus the two termini, South Station and Readville ; however, four additional stations are planned to be open by 2015.

He originally named the town Salina, but this was changed because of an existing Illinois town named Saline ; Francis Dougherty, an early settler, is said to have selected the name Fairmount.

Coal mining was attempted east of Fairmount, but this proved to be impractical because of water.

Fairmount is unique because it has a rotating study hall.

Regular service was kept on the Fairmount Line after 1987 because the relocated service was popular with residents of Dorchester and Roxbury.

In the original skip-stop configuration, in addition to the A and B stops shown on the map above, 2nd and 34th Street were " A " stations, and Fairmount ( replaced by Spring Garden ) was a " B " station ; the A and B designations at these stations were changed to " All-Stop " because of increased patronage in the 1990s.