Oscar Charleston – Baseball Star in Negro Leagues
Oscar Charleston played centerfield for the Harrisburg Giants, a team in the Eastern Colored League, for four seasons, 1924-1927, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was most active […]
Bud Weiser – Major League Baseball Player from Shamokin
Bud Weiser was born in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 8 Jan 1891, and died at that same place, July 31, 1961. He is buried at the I. O. O. F. […]
Coal Castles – Henry Clay Colliery
From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Henry Clay Colliery was located south of Shamokin. The colliery was opened by a drift driven west […]
Coal Castles – Burnside Colliery
Burnside Colliery is located 2.5 miles south of Shamokin in Coal Township, Northumberland County, on the Big Mountain Improvement Company tract. The colliery was opened with a drift on the […]
Coal Castles – Bear Valley Colliery
An undated photograph taken at the Bear Valley Colliery near Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania: Bear Valley breaker boys, wearing their colliery-issue safety goggles, are pictured in front of the all-wood […]
Pottsville – Bus Terminal
An undated photograph of the Bus Terminal at Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. This facility was built next to the Reading Railroad Station, and until the rail service ended, connections were […]
Former President Roosevelt Visits Coal Regions, 1914
A photograph of former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt seated in the back seat of a car at the Pottsville Reading Railroad Station in 1914. He had just arrived at the […]
Shamokin – Capitol Theatre & Tharp’s Ice Cream
An undated photograph of the Capitol Theatre and Tharp’s Ice Cream, Shamokin, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania. ____________________________________________________ From “Looking Back,” Pottsville Republican-Herald, December 30, 2012, via Newspapers.com. Corrections and additional information should be […]