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There was no classification of books and no system in teaching. In the references listed below, the kingdom of coal and growing up in coal country were particularly helpful in providing a historical background of the northeastern pennsylvania anthracite industry and the people who worked and lived it. Though european colonists had settled in the area as early as the 1700s, the town started to boom with the completion of the manayunk canal in 1823. Local history books on pennsylvania arcadia publishing. Including the counties of susquehanna, wayne, pike and monroe, page 547, issue 1280 ebook written by. The usnp was a cooperative national effort to inventory, catalog and preserve through microfilming the newspaper heritage of the united states from the 18th century to the present.
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