Fairmount Park in Philadelphia in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Sleeping Woman

©1991 Stephen Berg and Thomas Chimes

By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), May 20, 2023

1. Sleeping Woman Marker

Inscription. Directly across from this marker, a voice rises from the surface of the stone wall at the edge of the river and begins: "How can you know what it means to be here in the clear silence…and continues 1200' up river. In the summer of 1991, two months after it was painted, a section of the stone wall with the first sixty one words collapsed into the river. Sleeping Woman was commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Erected 1993 by Fairmount Park Art Association.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Disasters • Parks & Recreational Areas • Waterways & Vessels. A significant historical year for this entry is 1991.

Location. 39° 58.733′ N, 75° 11.753′ W. Marker is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County. It is in Fairmount Park. It is on Schuylkill River Trail east of Fountain Green Drive, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 25 Schuylkill River Trl, Philadelphia PA 19131, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker

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is in Southeast Pennsylvania. It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Cowboy (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Playing Angels / Sleeping Woman (approx. 0.2 miles away); Connecting Railroad Bridge (approx. 0.2 miles away); Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse (approx. ¼ mile away); Girard Avenue Bridge (approx. ¼ mile away); The Philadelphia Zoo (approx. 0.3 miles away); Historic Architecture (approx. 0.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Philadelphia.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), May 20, 2023

2. Sleeping Woman Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 21, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 229 times since then and 14 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 21, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.