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| One hundred years ago, one of these four views may have been how you entered Schuylkill Haven. Clockwise from the upper left image is: the trolley entering town from Pottsville to the north , Center Avenue how it would have appeared entering the town in a horse and wagon, the Pennsylvania Railroad station on Haven Street and the Reading Railroad station on Main Street. |
| Welcome to the Schuylkill Haven History Web Page. This web page was created on January 1, 2007 due to my life long interest in the history of our town. It is being presented with as much accuracy as possible from the sources where the information is obtained. The site is a work in progress with changes and additions occurring regularly. Enjoy your visit and feel free to send your comments and suggestions. If you have pictures or information you would like to share, contact me at: richardjnagle@schuylkillhavenhistory.com Richard J. Nagle - Site Creator and Administrator |
| The website consists of twenty different pages at the present time, each offering information within a distinct topic. Each page is in a different stage of progress and will be updated with new information and images at varying paces. Navigation on the site is done simply by clicking on any blue bar. |
Schuylkill Haven History
Welcome to a view into the past....
Welcome to a view into the past....
| Note: Click on each picture here and on many throughout the site and you will have a larger view. Clicking on it again to zoom in, may increase clarity and expose greater detail in the picture. |
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| This website is dedicated to my wonderful wife, Lynn M. Nagle, who will be forever missed. March 27,1959 - September 17, 2006 |
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| Thank you for your continued interest. On June 9, the site logged it's 406,000th page view. |
| LAST UPDATED: JUNE 14 MANY PAGES JUST UPDATED SCHOOL DAYS PAGE: NEW ARTICLES ADDED INCLUDING TEACHERS GIVEN NEW TASKS DURING POLIO QUARANTINE IN 1941, SCHOOL BOARD PASSES A RESOLUTION ALLOWING BOYS WHO LEAVE SCHOOL EARLY FOR ARMED FORCES TO GET A DIPLOMA AND THE TRAGIC DEATH OF MISS CASTAGNOLA IN 1974 BUSINESSES PAGE : NEW ARTICLES FROM 1918 ADDED INCLUDING: A POSSIBLE NEW SWIMMING POOL IN TOWN, SAUSSER'S HARDWARE REORGANIZES, BAST MILL GETS BIG GOVERNMENT CONTRACT, TELEPHONE USAGE INCREASES IN TOWN AND STORIES OF THE COAL WASHERIES THE GREAT WAR: ARTICLES JUST ADDED INCLUDE: LETTERS HOME FROM HAVEN SOLDIER BOYS IN FRANCE, DR. RYAN BECOMES SECOND TOWN PHYSICIAN TO VOLUNTEER, SCHUYLKILL HAVEN MILITIA MEN READY TO SERVE AND WOMEN ENTER THE FRAY AS NURSES AND REGISTER TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY YEARS GONE BY: UPDATED FOR MAY 1919 WITH A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING ARTICLES FROM THE CALL GIVING A NICE FLAVOR OF THE TOWN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO PHOTO ALBUM: NEW PHOTOS OF 1912 FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION, WORK ON COLUMBIA STREET BRIDGE, BRYANT MANSION, THE OLD BRICKYARD AND OTHERS JUST ADDED ALL ARE FROM THE LEE BECKER COLLECTION CRIME PAGE: A NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES HAS JUST BEEN ADDED FROM THE SUMMER OF 1918, MOST RATHER MINOR CRIMES BUT SOME QUITE INTERESTING RAILROADS PAGE: NEW ARTICLES ADDED INCLUDING: NEAR DISASTER AT THE STATION IN 1927, TRAIN HITS CAR IN 1957, 1932 SEES AN ISSUE WITH UNGUARDED CROSSINGS AND IN 1918 SHOP MEN ASKED TO WORK SUNDAYS FOR THE WAR EFFORT AND CAPE HORN GETS SOME ATTENTION NOTABLE NEWS: NEW ARTICLES FROM 1933 ADDED INCLUDING WINDSTORM DOES HEAVY DAMAGE, A KINDERGARTEN IS ESTABLISHED, ARMY PLANE FORCED TO LAND IN TOWN, SKUNKS INVADE THE TOWN, THE NUISANCE OF PEDDLERS IS ADDRESSED AND TWO MEN FROM TOWN RECEIVE A PATENT THAT MAY SAVE LIVES HISTORY PAGE: NEW STORIES IN THE "MUNICIPAL" SECTION JUST ADDED INCLUDING: MASONIC LODGE OF SCHUYLKILL HAVEN CELEBRATES ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY, A TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION FORMS IN TOWN, THE ISLAND PARK GETS A FACE LIFT AND A NEW CIVIL WORKS PROJECT GETS STARTED IN TOWN FIRES PAGE: A SERIES OF NEW ARTICLES FROM BETWEEN 1919 AND 1928 INCLUDING EFFORTS TO RAZE FIRE TRAPS IN SCHUYLKILL HAVEN AND VARIOUS FIRES CAUGHT IN TIME BY NEIGHBORS AND THE FIRE COMPANIES PREVENTING SERIOUS FIRES UNION CEMETERY PAGE: NEW ARTICLES ADDED INCLUDING A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE CEMETERY AND IMPROVEMENTS MADE AT BOTH UNION AND JERUSALEM CEMETERY. BURIAL RECORDS UP TO 1996 ARE NOW ALSO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST TUMBLING RUN PAGE: JUST ADDED ARE A SET OF MAPS OF THE TUMBLING RUN RESORT DURING ITS PEAK WITH A DETAILED LOOK AT THE LOCATIONS OF ALL THE BUILDINGS. ANOTHER GROUPING OF NEW IMAGES OF THE RESORT HAS ALSO JUST BEEN ADDED. WORLD WAR TWO PAGE: JUST ADDED ARE A SERIES OF PHOTOS FROM A VISIT TO NETHERLANDS AMERICAN CEMETERY IN OCTOBER 2017 WITH MY SON AND A RETURN VISIT TO THAT CEMETERY, THE ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY AND THE HENRI-CHAPELLE CEMETERY, BOTH IN BELGIUM, WITH MY WIFE THIS YEAR. EACH IS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF SCHUYLKILL HAVEN MEN KILLED IN WORLD WAR TWO CIVIL WAR PAGE: NEW OBITUARIES OF VETERANS LEWIS NOECKER, THOMAS LUCKENS, LIVINGSTON SAYLOR AND ADAM LLOYD JUST ADDED TO THE PAGE SCHUYLKILL CANAL PAGE: NEW ARTICLES JUST ADDED INCLUDING THE INTERESTING OBITUARY FOR LOCK TENDER JOHN BOUSSUM, LOW WATER FROM DROUGHT IN 1841, A RIOT BY BOATMEN IN TOWN, A MOTHER AND CHILD SAVED FROM DROWNING IN THE CANAL AND SHIPPING COAL ON THE CANAL GETS BUSIER NOW OVER 2100 PHOTOS AND OVER 3700 ARTICLES THROUGHOUT THE SITE !! CHECK EACH PAGE FOR BEST RESULTS See individual pages for specific update |