America's First Petrochemical Corridor
This website provides you—and others who care about the past and future of Philadelphia—a rich collection of sources about the South Philadelphia refinery complex and other petrochemical facilities along the lower Schuylkill River. Fundamentally, this website is a research tool: a digital archive accompanied by reference works and maps. Stakeholders at various levels—neighborhood, municipal, Commonwealth, business, non-profit—should find information of interest among the articles, primary sources, data sheets, and “grey literature” (such as government documents and corporate reports) curated here. Whether you’re a student, teacher, planner, designer, developer, activist, journalist, or simply an infrastructure geek, you are invited to use this website to learn, to share, and to tell stories about fossil fuel legacies in South and Southwest Philadelphia.
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