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The Falls of the Schuylkill were caused by large rocks which broke up the Schuylkill River at what is now the Philadelphia neighborhood of East Falls. The Falls disappeared from view in 1821 with the construction of the Fairmount Dam down river. Source: Lane and Cresswell. Prints of Philadelphia. 1990, p.
