Strengthening the open record.

Civil-rights leader and author; president of the Urban Crisis Center in Atlanta and author of Fire in My Bones (1983); born in Pottsville.

U.S. Army cavalry corporal and Medal of Honor recipient, for action in the Arizona Territory, 1868–69.

African American "First Defender," by tradition the first man to shed blood for the Union; wounded by a mob in Baltimore in April 1861 while marching with the First Defenders.

Ironmaster; the founder and namesake of Pottsville — distinct from Pottstown's John Potts.

Physician; a Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania graduate (1873) who practiced in Schuylkill County for some thirty-seven years — vice-president of the county medical society and president of the county Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Funeral director and four-term Mayor of Pottsville, from January 1, 1934 to 1950; the city built its City Hall during his administration, and the boulevard east of the downtown was renamed for him in 1958. His birth date is recorded here from his Pennsylvania death certificate and his own 1917 and 1942 draft registrations, which correct the 1890 given in his obituaries.

The innkeeper and landowner of the Broad Mountain whom Schuylkill County credits with the discovery of anthracite. The item carries only what the record will bear — his occupations, his residence in Hamburg and in Schuylkill County, and the years he is found active — and asserts no discovery: the book that first printed the campfire, in 1866, called it tradition. It claims no birth date, because the census age brackets contradict one another, and no citizenship, because his origin is unresolved.

In General Joulwan Park, commemorating the fifteen Medal of Honor recipients of Schuylkill County.

The rough-hewn granite memorial to the town's founder at Centre and Arch Streets, inscribed “John Pott, who founded Pottsville in the year 1806.”

The children's park and memorial on the old Market Street House corner, with Megan Price's 2½-story mural of the city's volunteer firefighting history, 1829–2018.

The county's Civil War monument on Garfield Square; sculptor August Zeller.

A casting of Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson's The Hiker, honoring Spanish–American War veterans.

An all-wars memorial honoring Pottsville-area service, dedicated May 1986.

Home of the Schuylkill County Fair.

The eight-story bank-and-office tower at 101 North Centre Street by Mowbray & Uffinger; a contributing building in the Pottsville Downtown Historic District.

John Fraser's 1865 grammar school at 305 North Centre Street — the home of the Schuylkill County Historical Society.

Ironmaster Charles M. Atkins's mansion at 396 South Centre Street; home of Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No. 411 from 1917 to 1994, later offices.

The county's flagship park on Sweet Arrow Lake in Pine Grove Township.

The 1927 banking hall at 120 South Centre Street, a contributing building in the Pottsville Downtown Historic District; since 2026 the hotel The Miners 1928.

The Public Works Administration city hall at 401 North Centre Street, occupied April 15, 1937 — the seat of city government and home of the Bureau of Police.