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Valted arches in an anthracite mine A head frame with selfdumping cages and a mine car hoist Al Gregas of Shenendoah stands with his sledgehammer and a lunch pail waiting to enter a mine The Girard Colliery was located on the southern edge of the borough of Girardville
This image shows the stripping of the huge Mammoth vein near Shenendoah The northern terminus of the Schuylkill Canal was Port Carbon after the canal was extended from Mount Carbon in 1828 The first tunnel in North America was dug through this hill near Landingville by the Schuylkill Navigation Company The canal boats in the foreground are anchored at Young's Landing. The landing is on the east side of Pottsville where Anderson Street meets Route 209 as it enters Pottsville, from Port Carbon
The Reading Company Passenger-Freight station on Union Street in Pottsville The Lark has stopped for a photo opportunity at the East Norwegian and Railroad Streets, Pottsville, in 1866 Trains coming into Pottsville on the south side of town. The reading Railroad tracks make a Y as they come into Pottsville and the right-hand tracks continue to towns north of Pottsville The Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel at the east mines near Saint Clair
The Saint Clair yard of the reading Railroad was opened in 1913. The yard was the largest classified rail yard in the country Car N. 36 is cut in half at the car barn to make it larger Car No. 44 sits on the rails outside the Palo Alto car barn. The big fire of January 6,1917, destroyed the power plant and the car barn of what was then the Eastern Pennsylvania Railway Company. The whole region was in darkness for ten hours as a result of the fire The tracks are all laid and the crew has gone to work in another town. This trolley car is traveling up North Centre Street towards the 1863 Female Grammar School
The Gilberton Trolley Riot occurred on July 21, 1893, when the Gilberton Borough Council and the Schuylkill Traction Company had a dispute concerning the location of track within the borough A troller car passes through Garfield Square on June 30, 1932, the last day of trolley service in Pottsville. The last car left Minersville at midnight and was run to Palo Alto barn by Motorman George Heiser and Conductor George Hutchinson. Bus service started in town the next day The Mortimer House was built in 1823 by peter and Jacob Seitzinger as a private dwelling The North Western Hotel was at the northwest corner of North Centre and Laurel Streets, and the proprietor was C. Sheetz. This image was made on a fine summer day in the 1890's----there was no business being done inside because all the customers were outside posing for the photographer
Even before Henry Clay's towering monument had been dragged up South Second Street to its pillar overlooking southeastern Pottsville, Joseph Silver conceived the idea that the site was ideal for the town's first office building The canal boat Bruce coming up the Blue Mountain Dam at Port Clinton on August 15,1906. The Schuylkill Canal was built as slack-water navigation Employees of the Schuylkill Navigation Company standing in front of the Navigation building on Coal Street, Schuylkill Haven A Pennslyvania Railroad engine crossing the trestle at the Island as it comes in front of Atkins Iron Works
Railroad hoboes making a stew near Palo Alto on October 25, 1885. It was probably a delicious meal for the two men Car N. 36 is cut in half at the car barn to make it larger The tracks have been laid on the South Centre Street and a two-car trolley is off to Tumbling Run with a crowd of pleasure seekers