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105.5 FM Tamaqua signed on the air in June 1965 as WSVB-FM from the "Dutch Hill" section of Tamaqua. The station was owned by Sky View Broadcasting. In 1971, the license was transferred to Z Broadcasting, Inc. and the call letters were changed to WZTA-FM. Under this new ownership the station was fully automated and broadcast an Easy listening ...
South Tamaqua is a village located along the Little Schuylkill River at the junctions of Routes 309 and 443 in West Penn Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between the New Ringgold ZIP code of 17960 and that of Tamaqua ZIP code 18252, and served by the 386 exchange in area code 570. South Tamaqua is home to Anthony Richards who ...
Tamaqua (/ t ə ˈ m ɑː k w ə /, Delaware: tëmakwe) [5] is a borough in eastern Schuylkill County in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania, United States. It had a population of 6,934 as of the 2020 U.S. census. [4] Tamaqua was established from territory from West Penn and Schuylkill Townships. The borough is part of the micropolitan statistical ...
Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) [1] [2] was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–2010), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997).
Erma Vernice Franklin (March 13, 1938 – September 7, 2002) [1] was an American gospel and soul singer. Franklin recorded the original version of " Piece of My Heart ", written and produced by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns in 1967, for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award . [ 2 ]
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. [1] During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. [2]
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly.. The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.