View of Pottsville, Taken from Sharp Mountain – Antique Wall Map
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A window into the past: View of Pottsville, Taken from Sharp Mountain, preserved in this antique map. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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View of Pottsville, Taken from Sharp Mountain
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Sharp Mountain, the ridge that overlooks the town, provided the elevated vantage for this view of Pottsville, the seat of Schuylkill County in east-central Pennsylvania. Pottsville grew quickly after anthracite was mined in the surrounding hills, and by the mid-nineteenth century its streets, churches, canal and railroad links made it a center of the coal trade. Panoramic views like this one were popular in that period, offering a wide, bird's-eye record of a booming industrial community set against the wooded slopes of the mountain.
| Original scan | 4,944 × 3,623 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | PA-Pottsvile-1833 |
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