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Broad Mountain (Schuylkill Valley)
Broad Mountain or Broad Ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Carbon County and Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania is a steep-faced, anthracite-bearing barrier ridge just south of both Beaver Meadows and Weatherly, north of Nesquehoning and west and south of the Lehigh River basin west of the southwest border of the Poconos. The mountain ridge line is mostly flat and looks very similar to the man-made piles of culm in the region from the roads and towns looking up. Geography The long ridge has several peaks and the west-southwest peak in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is just short of the summit altitude of the Carbon County peak. The west-southwest section also continues an important watershed terrain separating the waters of the Schuylkill basin from those of the Lehigh River, which receives the majority of outflow. Broad Ridge and Nesquehoning Mountain are joined together at elevation at the location of Hometown, Pennsylvania through which an important railroad li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County (, ; Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: Schulkill Kaundi) is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 143,049. The county seat is Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pottsville. The county is part of the Northeastern Pennsylvania, Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. The county is part of the Pottsville micropolitan statistical area, and borders eight counties: Berks County, Pennsylvania, Berks and Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Lebanon counties to its south, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Dauphin and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Northumberland counties to its west, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, Columbia and Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne counties to its north, and Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Carbon and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh counties to its east. The county is approximately west of Allentown, Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
Weatherly is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located northwest of Jim Thorpe and south of Wilkes-Barre. The population was 2,525 at the 2010 census. History Originally called "Black Creek", it received a name change to "Weatherly" in 1848. Clock-maker David Weatherly, also an executive of the Beaver Meadow Railroad, made an agreement with the town that he would build them a clock if they would rename the town "Weatherly". They changed the name of the town to Weatherly, however David Weatherly returned to Philadelphia to be treated for cancer and died before he could build the promised clock. Charles and Eurana Schwab funded the clock that was built into the clock tower on top of the town's school, but the town kept the name Weatherly. Early in the twentieth century, there were silk mills, foundries, a candy factory, a fabricating plant, and a cigar factory. In 1900, 2,471 people lived there, and in 1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne Landing
Lausanne Landing, Pennsylvania was a small settlement at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River. Some historic references will mention the presence of a Landing Tavern as the entirety of the town. Lausanne Township was originally organized out of dense wilderness along an ancient Amerindian Trail, the Warriors' Path, an important regional route as it connected the Susquehanna River settlements of the lower Wyoming Valley to those around Philadelphia. During the American Revolutionary War, this route became the Lausanne-Nescopeck Road. In 1804, it was improved into a toll road, the Lehigh and Susquehanna Turnpike. The fan-shaped plain provided some of the flattest landscape terrain in the entire area, and was able to support a few small farm plots, boat building, and a lumber mill. As the U.S. economy became industrialized, widespread local deforestation occurred to feed lumber mills and craft transports. Exacerbating local clearcutting was convenient river acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geology Of Pennsylvania
The Geology of Pennsylvania consists of six distinct physiographic provinces, three of which are subdivided into different sections. Each province has its own economic advantages and geologic hazards and plays an important role in shaping everyday life in the state. From the southeast corner to the northwest corner of the state, they include: the Atlantic Plain, Atlantic Plain Province, the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont Province, the New England Province, the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, Ridge and Valley Province, the Appalachian Plateau, Appalachian Province, and the Central Lowlands Province. A majority of the rocks in Pennsylvania exposed at the surface are sedimentary and were deposited during the Paleozoic Era. Almost all of the metamorphic and igneous rocks are confined to the southeast portion of the state. A total of four orogeny, orogenies have affected the rocks of the Commonwealth including the Grenville orogeny, the Taconic orogeny, the Acadian orogeny, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delano, Pennsylvania
Delano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census. Geography Delano is located at (40.839633, -76.071032). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Delano has a total area of , all land. Demographics At the 2000 census, there were 377 people, 163 households, and 118 families living in the CDP. The population density was . There were 172 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.94% White and 1.06% Asian. Of the 163 households 25.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% were non-families. 24.5% of households were one person and 12.3% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.74. The age distribution was 17.2% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 26.8% fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Schuylkill River
The Little Schuylkill River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It rises south of McAdoo Heights near Haddock, Kline Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on top of Broad Mountain. It flows south, then southwest passing through the communities of Tamaqua and New Ringgold. The river joins the Schuylkill River near Port Clinton west of Hawk Mountain. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has designated several parts of the stream special trout stocking areas. History The Little Schuylkill River was known as the Tamauguay Creek or River in the 18th and early to mid-19th centuries. Its name is derived from the Lenape word for "beaver" (tëmakwe or tamaqua) and also the Lenape method for using "hunter’s hints,"Mahr, August C., PRACTICAL REASONS FOR ALGONKIAN INDIAN STREAM AND PLACE NAMES, THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Bank
In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. Different structures are referred to as ''banks'' in different fields of geography. In limnology (the study of inland waters), a stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongside the Stream bed, bed of a river, creek, or stream. The bank consists of the sides of the channel (geography), channel, between which the streamflow, flow is confined. Stream banks are of particular interest in fluvial geography, which studies the processes associated with rivers and streams and the Deposition (geology), deposits and landforms created by them. Bankfull discharge is a Discharge (hydrology), discharge great enough to fill the channel and overtop the banks. The descriptive terms ''left bank'' and ''right bank'' refer to the perspective of an observer looking current (stream), downstream; a well-known example of this being the southern Rive Gauche, left bank and the northern Rive Droite, right bank of the river Seine definin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lehigh Coal And Navigation Company
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LCAN) (1988–2010) was a modern-day anthracite coal mining company headquartered in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. It acquired many properties and relaunched the Lehigh Coal Companies brand in 1988. The LCAN ran strip mining operations in the Panther Creek Valley east of Lansford, Pennsylvania along U.S. Route 209 with vast properties dominating the coal areas of Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford. LCAN properties were largely Panther Creek Valley-based real estate assets that were acquired from Lehigh Coal Mine Company and Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, which built the Lehigh Canal and the first American blast furnaces, both which spearheaded the American industrial revolution. The new company was incorporated in 1988, acquiring LC&N assets after bankruptcy proceedings. History 19th century The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a prominent coal mining and transportation infrastructure company first established in 1822 after four yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Route 54
Pennsylvania Route 54 (PA 54) is a state highway which runs for in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States. The highway runs from U.S. Route 15 in Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 15 (US 15), which is three miles (5 km) west of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Lycoming County, in the west, to U.S. Route 209, US 209 in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Carbon County, in the east. Route description Montgomery to Danville PA 54 begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 15 in Pennsylvania, US 15 in Clinton Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Clinton Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Lycoming County, heading east on a two-lane undivided road. The road passes through farmland and woodland with homes as it passes to the south of Bald Eagle Mountain. The route curves southeast before it turns south and runs past businesses. PA 54 enters the borough of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, Montgomery and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hometown, Pennsylvania
Hometown is a village (a neighborhood, and now a census-designated place (CDP) once having a post office) in Rush Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States that sits astride a crossing point between important transportation corridors. The population was 1,399 at the 2000 census, and excepting for the area near the east–west PA 54 running mostly parallel to the tracks of the Reading, Blue Mountain, and Northern Railroad — once the important east-west shortline Nesquehoning & Mahanoy Railroad — and the PA 54 junction with PA 309. Geography Hometown is located at (40.822308, -75.983928). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Hometown is located north of Tamaqua and south of Hazleton at the intersections of Route 54 and 309. Hometown's elevation is above sea level. It uses the Tamaqua zip code of 18252. The oldest village in Rush Township, Hometown was founded by Messrs. Duncan of Philadelphia. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
