The record · hard-coal country
History & genealogy
Public-domain corpus from the J. H. Beers 1916 genealogy of Schuylkill County, Chronicling America, the Library of Congress, and Wikimedia Commons — with structured indexes by surname, biographical sketch, and source. Every claim is deep-linked to its original page scan.
Topics
- Anthracite coal in Pennsylvania — the Schuylkill County and Southern Field story — Anthracite is hard coal — under 10% volatile matter. ~95% of US reserves are in Pennsylvania, across four fields including the Southern Field at Pottsville.
- The Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region — The Molly Maguires were an Irish-American secret society active in Pennsylvania's anthracite region from the 1860s to the 1870s. Twenty members were executed.
- U.S. anthracite production peak — 1917 — U.S. anthracite production peaked in 1917 at 99.67 million short tons (per USGS), almost all of it from Pennsylvania's four anthracite fields.
- Yuengling — America's oldest operating brewery, Pottsville, Pennsylvania (founded 1829) — D. G. Yuengling & Son was founded in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and is the oldest continuously operating brewery in the United States.
Surname indexes
- Wagner — 11 citations
Biographical sketches
- Gary S. Becker (1930–2014)
- Dennis Joseph Dougherty (1865–1951)
- John O'Hara (1905–1970)
- Henry Pleasants (1833–1880)
- David Yuengling (1808–1877)
- Frank D. Yuengling (1876–1963)