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.
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
Molly Maguires
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It is alleged that the Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American
Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
…and Tamaqua, was known to have mine tailings in their lands in Coaldale. The Greenwood breaker in 1874, as noted in the above quote, was burned by the Molly Maguires in the labor troubles of that era. Irish, Welsh, and German immigrants came to the borough in the 1840s and 1850s followed by a large influx of Italians…
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly
Pinkerton Detective Agency detective James McParland, in the 1880s
Franklin B. Gowen, District Attorney for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Yost's tombstone in Tamaqua's Odd Fellows Cemetery, which states that he had been "assassinated"