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2 unusual facts about Schuylkill


Pete Dexter

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

Schuylkill, Philadelphia

The hospital has hired a consultant to plan the traffic patterns around the area as they did for Delaware Waterfront and New York's Battery Park.


Allentown Railroad

From Reading, traffic could either pass north to Auburn and thence over the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, or west over the Lebanon Valley Railroad to Harrisburg.

Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Formed in 1822, it is named for American Revolutionary War Commander John Barry and was formed from parts of Norwegian and Schuylkill Townships.

Boathouse Row

In 1979, lights designed by architectural lighting designer Ray Grenald were installed to outline each of the boathouses, giving them a nightly Christmas-like gingerbread house appearance and reflecting in the Schuylkill River.

East Penn Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Route 895 crosses it after crossing the southern tier of Schuylkill County and ends at an interchange with Route 248 across the river in Bowmanstown.

J-Diggs

Diggs kept all of his steps while bouncing back and forth across the United States to Federal facilities in Louisburg, Pennsylvania, Lompoc, California, Raybrook, New York, El Reno, Oklahoma, Fairington, New Jersey, Allenwood, McKean & Schuylkill, Pennsylvania.

Mahantango

Mahantango Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin, Northumberland, and Schuylkill counties, in Pennsylvania

Orwin

Orwin, Pennsylvania, census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania Route 183

Much of what is now PA 183 was originally designated as part of Pennsylvania Route 83 in 1928, a route that ran from US 30/PA 1 in Devon northwest to US 120/PA 42 (now PA 61) near Schuylkill Haven.

Pennsylvania Route 29

At the end of Starr, PA 29 makes a right onto the aptly named Bridge Street, crossing the Schuylkill River by way of the Mont Clare Bridge and entering Montgomery County in the process.

Richard G. Gotti

As of June 2010, Gotti is currently serving his sentence in at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge was built in 1885–86 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a formerly electrified, wrought iron, two-track, deck truss, (fixed shut) swing bridge across the Schuylkill River in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Schuylkill Canal Association

Organized in 1982 as the Schuylkill Canal Advisory Board, the Association, in cooperation with Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, maintains the canal reach, associated structures, parks and trails.

Schuylkill Fishing Company

The door onto the porch was flanked by a piano and by a tall case clock made by Peter Stretch about 1740, father of the Schuylkill Fishing Company's first Governor, Thomas Stretch, which had been donated by Governor William Fisher Lewis.

Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania

Before Europeans settled the land that is now part of Schuylkill Haven, the area was occupied by the Lenape people, who were known as the Delaware Indians by the English).

Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area

Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the valley of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Schuylkill River Trail

Many current and proposed sections of the Schuylkill River Trail, including the Thun Trail and the Oaks to Philadelphia portion, are rail trails, following the right-of-way of the former Schuylkill Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

SEPTA Route 15

The Richmond and Schuylkill River Passenger Railway was chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on March 26, 1859 to operate along Girard Avenue between the Girard Avenue Bridge over the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park and Norris Street in Richmond, with an extension authorized west over the bridge to Lancaster Avenue.

University Bridge

University Avenue Bridge, crosses the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

West Branch Schuylkill River

From its headwaters near Interstate 81, the river flows southeast through several water gaps in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, ending at its confluence with the Schuylkill River in Schuylkill Haven.


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