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Tamaqua is located in a valley basin at (40.798600, −75.966498) [14] in Pennsylvania's southern Coal Region section of the Appalachian Mountains in the Schuylkill River drainage Tamaqua's valley is located at the western end of the Pocono Mountains on the edge of the neighboring Lehigh River watershed.
The Tamaqua Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Schuylkill Township and Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
The Tamaqua station is a disused railway station that is located in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Tamaqua Historic District. [1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 26, 1985, as the Reading Railroad Passenger Station-Tamaqua.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget [38] has designated Schuylkill County as the Pottsville, PA micropolitan statistical area (μSA). [39] As of the 2010 U.S. Census [ 40 ] the micropolitan area ranked the number 1 most populous in the State of Pennsylvania and the 5th most populous in the United States with a population of 148,289.
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Pennsylvania Route 443 (PA 443) is an 80-mile-long (130 km) east–west state highway in the US state of Pennsylvania.The western terminus is at an intersection with State Route 3009 (SR 3009) at North Front Street on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in the community of Fort Hunter in Middle Paxton Township, just west of an interchange with the U.S. Route 22 (US 22)/US 322 freeway.
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company constructed it between Lansford, PA and the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad operating as the Little Schuylkill Railroad in Tamaqua, PA. LC&N believed a direct route to take Panther Valley coal to eastern markets and a tunnel connecting Lansford to Hauto would open up possibilities with the Nesquehoning ...
Because of the adverse topology, the LC&N took several decades to survey and drive a railbed with a negotiable grade from Mauch Chunk through Nesquehoning, along the Nesquehoning ridge to Hometown, and then up the Panther Creek Valley from Tamaqua. Coaldale also became the site of a State Hospital that was established to take care of coal ...