53 Pa. Stat. § 16501
The boundaries of the Fairmount park in the city of Philadelphia shall be the following, to wit: Beginning at a point in the north-easterly line of property owned and occupied by the Reading Railroad Company, near the city bridge over the river Schuylkill at the falls, where said north-easterly line would be intersected by the land dividing the property of H. Duhring from that of F. Stoever and T. Johnson, if the same were extended from thence in a south-westerly direction upon said dividing line, and its prolongation to the middle of the Ford road, from thence by a line passing through the southeast corner of Forty-ninth and Lebanon streets to George's run; thence along the several courses of said run to a point fourteen hundred and eighty-seven and a half feet from the middle of the Pennsylvania railroad, measured at right angles thereto; thence by a straight line through the northeast corner of Forty-third and Hancock streets, to the northerly side of Girard avenue near Fortieth street; thence by the said northerly line of Girard avenue to the easterly side of the Junction railroad as now used; thence by the said easterly side of the Junction railroad and the Pennsylvania railroad to the north side of Haverford street; thence by the northerly side of said Haverford street to the westerly side of Bridgewater street; thence by said Bridgewater street to the north line of Bridge street; thence by said Bridge street to the west abutment of the suspension bridge; hence by the northwesterly side of the suspension bridge and Callowhill street to the angle in said street, on the southwesterly side of Fairmount basin; thence by the northerly side of Callowhill and Biddle streets to the westerly side of Twenty-fifth street; thence by the said Twenty-fifth street to the southwesterly side of Pennsylvania avenue; thence by the southwesterly side of Pennsylvania avenue to the west side of Twenty-third street; thence along the westerly side of Twenty-third street to the southwesterly line of Ridge avenue; thence along the said Ridge avenue to the southwesterly line of south Laurel Hill cemetery (north of Huntingdon street); thence by and along said property line to such a distance from the shore line of the river Schuylkill as will permit the location of a carriage road one hundred feet wide upon its margin; thence along said river shore and its several courses as may be most practicable, at the same distance as above specified (provided said distance shall not exceed one hundred and fifty feet), to a point opposite the intersection of the Ridge turnpike and School lane; thence northwardly to a point on the southwesterly side of said turnpike road opposite to the southeasterly side of said School lane; thence by the southwesterly side of the Ridge turnpike road and its several courses to the southeasterly side of the Wissahickon creek; thence by the several courses of the said southeasterly side of Wissahickon creek to the Schuylkill river; thence across the watercourse of said river to the northeasterly line of the Reading railroad company's property as now occupied and in use, at the city boundary line; thence along said northeasterly line, as now occupied and used by said railroad company, to the place of beginning, excepting, nevertheless, thereout the several water-works and their appurtenances, which are included within these boundaries, and such uses of the premises immediately adjacent to the same, and such other portions of the ground as are described in this section, as the city of Philadelphia may from time to time require for the purposes of its water department.
53 P.S. § 16501