But the Fairmount Park Commission, which administered the city’s park system at the time, required the trolley company to build its bridges within the park to certain standards, which likely helped ...

Two people have died and nine others were injured in a shooting at Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park during Memorial Day celebrations in.

Fairmount Park by the numbers The report crunches some serious numbers. The 2,050-acre park boasts 340,000 members of park organizations, with five cultural institutions, including the Philadelphia ...

Family of teen killed in Fairmount Park in 2024 has message for parents after Memorial Day shooting 02:44. The parents of 17-year-old Isya Stanley, who was shot and killed during a pop-up party in ...

The trolley’s demise. As the story goes, the advent of the automobile killed the need for the Fairmount Park Trolley, and it shut down service in September 1946. The park’s trails suffered years of ...