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36: 48: 338:. A stone bridge carrying the highway was erected in 1924 with a 70-foot-tall (21 m) arch commemorating the 282 men and 2 women from Delaware County who died in World War I. This arch was demolished in 1958 when the highway was widened. The memorial tablets were moved to the nearby entrance of Smedley Park. 365:
at the Aqua PA facility, it creates a small, unnamed reservoir. The third is just north of Wallingford Road (Rogers Lane) partly in Springfield Township and partly in Nether Providence Township. The fourth is under the SEPTA Media/Wawa bridge partly in Swarthmore and partly in Nether Providence. The
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commuter railroad line across the creek, which by now runs through a deep valley. The trestle is located in the Crum Woods, 200 acres (81 ha) of forest surrounding the creek that constitutes part of the campus of
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Two notable landmarks along the creek's course are high trestles: a trolley trestle about 30 feet (10 m) high runs across the creek in Smedley Park, in
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Crum Creek has five dams. The first is in Upper Providence Township, thus backing up the creek to create Springton Reservoir. The second is in
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across the creek. About a mile (1.6 km) south, a 1,000-foot-long (300 m), 100-foot-high (30 m) trestle carries SEPTA's
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fifth is just north of East Rose Valley Road (Yale Avenue) partly in Swarthmore and partly in Nether Providence.
349:(also known as Geist Reservoir), an approximately 391-acre (1.58 km) drinking water reservoir maintained by 320:. This tract, one of the largest patches of woodland remaining in Delaware County, is managed by the college's 375: 503: 257: 186: 519: 346: 273: 261: 112: 496: 264:, flowing approximately 24 miles (39 km), generally in a southward direction and draining into the 335: 296: 289: 325: 190: 276:
along which several mills were established in the 19th century. Right afterward it crosses under
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https://web.archive.org/web/20010702072253/http://www.delcohistory.org/nphs/nether_4.htm
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Photograph by PH.B.Wallace, July 1925, courtesy of Temple University Libraries,
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and winds one and a half miles (2.4 km) downstream until it hits the
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For the former railroad spur in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, see
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Baltimore Pike also crosses the Crum by Smedley Park in
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Crum Creek, Oklahoma


Newtown Square, PA
Eddystone, PA
Chester County
40°02′15″N 75°28′34″W / 40.03750°N 75.47611°W / 40.03750; -75.47611
Mouth
Delaware River
Eddystone
Delaware County
USA
39°51′29″N 75°19′16″W / 39.85806°N 75.32111°W / 39.85806; -75.32111
Dutch
creek
Delaware County
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Delaware River
Eddystone, Pennsylvania
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Route 29
hamlet
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Nether Providence Township
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
trolley
Media, Pennsylvania
Media/Wawa Line
Swarthmore College

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