POTTSVILLE  , a See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Schuylkill county, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at Schuylkill See also:

• GAP

Gap through See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

Sharp See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

Mountain on the Schuylkill See also:

• RIVER

river, about 90 m . N.W. of See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia . Pop . (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 20,236 . It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia & See also:

• READING

Reading See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, and by the Eastern Pennsylvania railway See also:

• COMPANY

company to the borough of Minersville (pop., 1910, 7240), about 41M . N.N.E., and to the other boroughs in the immediate neighbourhood, for which Pottsville is a business and See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping centre . It is picturesquely situated in the famous Schuylkill coalfield and on the old Schuylkill See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal and Tumbling Run, and has a considerable number of summer visitors . There are large repair shops of the Pennsylvania and of the Philadelphia & Reading railways at Pottsville . In 1905 the See also:

• TOTAL

total value of the factory products was $5,805,788 . The first settlers here, a single See also:

• FAMILY

family, were massacred by the See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians in See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 178o; a second See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement was established about 1795, and an See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• FURNACE

furnace was erected a few years later . In 1804 this furnace was See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• POTT, AUGUST FRIEDRICH (1802–1887)
• POTT, PERCIVALL (1714–1788)

Pott (1759–1827), the founder of the borough; in 1807 See also:

• COAL

coal was discovered; in 1816 the See also:

• TOWN

town was laid out; in 1828 it was incorporated as a borough; and in 1851 the borough became the county-seat . In 1854–1877 Pottsville was a centre of the Molly Maguire disturbances, and here a number of the leaders were tried and convicted in 1876–1877 .

In 1908 the borough of Yorkville (pop., 1900, 1125) was annexed to Pottsville .