Schuylkill County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 143,049. The county seat is Pottsville. The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania re
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Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville
The Bretz, Kohinoor Mine in Shenandoah in 1884
The 1927 George Luks mural at Necho Allen Hotel in Pottsville pays tribute to the region's 19th and early 20th century coal miners.
Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
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Tamaqua is a borough in eastern Schuylkill County in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania, United States. It had a population of 6,934 as of the 2020 U.S. census.
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…with connections west, and the Schuylkill Canal southward from Port Carbon to Philadelphia. Coal mined by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in the Tamaqua and Coaldale areas was often shipped down the Lehigh Canal from Jim Thorpe in neighboring Carbon County. To the north, mountain and ridges were a natural…
West Broad Street in Tamaqua in July 2013
The Benjamin F. Yost Memorial in Tamaqua, honoring Benjamin Yost, a Tamaqua policeman assassinated in the Molly Maguires attacks on July 6, 1875
The American Hose Fire Company at night in Tamaqua in August 2012
The Flat Iron Building in Tamaqua in September 2014