Lock Number Sixty-Eight
Lock Number Sixty-Eight is a dam in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Lock Number Sixty-Eight is situated nearby to the railway station Shawmont station, as well as near Ivy Ridge station.- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lock 68” and “Lock Number 68”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shawmont station and Ivy Ridge station.
Shawmont station
Railway station
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Shawmont is a former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located on Nixon Street in the Roxborough section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia. Shawmont station is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.
Ivy Ridge station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ivy Ridge station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Umbria Street and Parker Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia, it serves the Manayunk/Norristown Line. Ivy Ridge station is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.
Belmont Hills Public Library
Library
Photo: Spybeak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Belmont Hills Public Library is situated 1 mile south of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belmont Hills and Manayunk.
Belmont Hills
Neighborhood
Located in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, Belmont Hills is a suburb of Philadelphia. Belmont Hills is a neighborhood within the village of Bala Cynwyd.
Manayunk
Neighborhood
Photo: Dasprevailz, Public domain.
Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States.
Penn Valley
Suburb
Penn Valley is an unincorporated community located within Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Despite sharing a zip code with Narberth, because the community does not have its own post office, Penn Valley is a separate and distinct community… Penn Valley is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lock Number Sixty-Eight.
Lock Number Sixty-Eight
- Categories: lock and historic site
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.03794° or 40° 2′ 17″ northLongitude
-75.24448° or 75° 14′ 40″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
87G62QQ4+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 588195023OpenStreetMap feature
historic=lockOpenStreetMap feature
water=lockOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
“Lock Number Sixty-Eight” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lock Number Sixty-Eight”
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