NEW Arcadia Publishing Pottsville in the Twentieth Century, PA 9780738512372 Ima

Was the headline in the Pottsville Republican on January 1, 1900. The people of Pottsville ushered in the new century in the usual manner with noisy gatherings and crowded churches. Coal was king in Schuylkill County during the nineteenth century, but the demise of the coal industry had already begun by 1900.

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