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Encyclopedia Britannica



POTTSVILLE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POTTSVILLE , a borough and the county-seat of Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., at Schuylkill Gap through
Sharp
 
Mountain
  on the Schuylkill river, about 90 m. N.W. of Philadelphia. Pop. (1910
census
 ) 20,236. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
 , the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways, and by the Eastern Pennsylvania railway company to the borough of Minersville (pop., 1910, 7240), about 41M. N.N.E., and to the other boroughs in the immediate neighbourhood, for which Pottsville is a business and shipping centre. It is picturesquely situated in the famous Schuylkill coalfield and on the old Schuylkill canal and Tumbling Run, and has a considerable number of summer visitors. There are large repair shops of the Pennsylvania and of the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways at Pottsville. In 1905 the
total
  value of the factory products was $5,805,788.
The first settlers here, a single family, were massacred by the Indians in August 178o; a second
settlement
  was established about 1795, and an iron furnace was erected a few years later. In 1804 this furnace was
purchased
  by John Pott (17591827), the founder of the borough; in 1807 coal was discovered; in 1816 the town was laid out; in 1828 it was incorporated as a borough; and in 1851 the borough became the county-seat. In 18541877 Pottsville was a centre of the Molly Maguire disturbances, and here a number of the leaders were tried and convicted in 18761877. In 1908 the borough of Yorkville (pop., 1900, 1125) was annexed to Pottsville.


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