SHENANDOAH  , a

borough of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., about 40 M . N.N.W. of Reading . Pop . (19x0, . census), 25,774 . Among the foreign-born the Lithuanians and Poles predominate—in 1910 a Lithuanian and a Polish paper were published here . Shenandoah is served by the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia & Reading railways . The borough has a public library . The United Greek Catholic Church (Ruthenian Rite) here is said to be the first of this sect in the United States; it was organized as St Michael's Parish in 1885, the first building was erected in 1886, and a new building was completed in 1909 . Shenandoah is situated in the eastern part of the middle basin of the great anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, and the mining and shipping of coal are its chief industries . A log house was built on the site of the present Shenandoah as early as 1835, but there was no further development until 1862, when the first colliery was opened . The borough was incorporated in 1866 .