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Poquessing Park
The 21.5-mile Poquessing watershed drains the land between the Neshaminy and Pennypack
Creeks, emptying into the Delaware River at Glen Foerd. Poquessing Creek Park was originally inhabited by
Lenni-Lenape Indians. The area was first settled in 1675 by four brothers: Nathaniel, Thomas, Daniel and William.
In 1680, King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, included the Poquessing in a land grant to William Penn, whose first visit to the Philadelphia area was in
1682.
The mouth of the Poquessing Creek was originally proposed as the site for Penn's Philadelphia and for many
years was known as "Old Philadelphia".
Sections of Poquessing Creek Park were assembled by the Fairmount Park Commission in the 1970s when the city
converted its prison farm into an industrial park. Despite its rich history and ecological importance as an urban
green space, Poquessing is the least discovered of Philadelphia's parks.
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