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Schuylkill Navy logo. The Schuylkill Navy is an association of amateur rowing clubs of Philadelphia. Founded in 1858, it is the oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States. [1] The member clubs are all on the Schuylkill River where it flows through Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, mostly on the historic Boathouse Row.
The Schuylkill River (/ ˈ s k uː l k ɪ l / SKOOL-kil, [1] locally / ˈ s k uː k ə l / SKOO-kəl) [2] is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for 135 miles (217 km) [ 3 ] from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia , the nation's sixth-largest city, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries.
In 2022 county governments formed the Schuylkill River Passenger Rail Authority to further the development of the project. In 2023 the Federal Railroad Administration accepted the route into its Corridor Identification and Development Program , which allocates money for planning and prioritizes the project for future funding.
Boathouse Row is a historic site which is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of fifteen boathouses housing social and rowing clubs and their racing shells .
The Stotesbury Cup Regatta, sponsored by the Schuylkill Navy, is the world's oldest [1] and largest high school rowing competition. [2] It is held annually in mid-May over a two-day period on the Schuylkill River near Boathouse Row in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The second company began work on the 30.3-mile (48.8 km) route along the Schuylkill from Phoenixville to Reading in November 1882. [5] On June 1, 1883, these two companies were consolidated with the Phoenixville and West Chester Railroad, then building the PRR's Phoenixville Branch, into the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad. [6]
In Schuylkill Navy races, Pennsylvania Barge had 359 entries and 106 victories. Its teams represented the United States in the 1920 (four-with-cox), 1924 (four-with), 1928 (four-with and four-without), and 1932 (pair-with) Olympic Games. [4] As a result of World War II, the club suffered a drastic reduction in membership. [5]
The P&R built the viaduct, 1853–56, to carry coal cars to the company's coal terminal on the Delaware River in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. The bridge's design is unusual. Because it crosses the river at an oblique angle, it was constructed as a ribbed skew arch bridge, with each span composed of a series of offset stone ...