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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 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.
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 .
Schuylkill New Philadelphia: Borough Schuylkill Cumbola: Census-designated place: Schuylkill Port Carbon: Borough Schuylkill Palo Alto: Borough Schuylkill Mechanicsville: Borough (The Borough Line extends to the Schuylkill River even though the residential areas do not.) Schuylkill Pottsville: City Schuylkill Mount Carbon: Borough Schuylkill ...
Schuylkill River from race start to finish at Boathouse Row. The HOSR was first held in 1874. [1] The regatta, as it exists now, was founded in 1971 by members of the University Barge Club, Joseph N. “J” Pattison IV and Olympic Rower, Lyman S.A. Perry. [8] [9] Until recently, the event was the largest one-day rowing competition in the world.
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.
This is a route-map template for the Schuylkill River, a waterway in Pennsylvania, the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a commercial waterway in the early 19th-century. Chartered in 1815, the navigation opened in 1825, to provide transportation and water power.