GC16K7M WELCOME TO POTTSVILLE-SOUTH (Traditional Cache) in Pennsylvania, United States created by sclave

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A cache by sclave Message this owner

Hidden : 10/11/2007

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In a medical plaza but, on City of Pottsville land a magnetic H-A-K,and approved by the City!
Not handicapped accessible.
A FTF Susan B. Anthony coin in it (last price for one of these was $17.84)
Congrats to TAMMY576 for FTF ![:D]

This site is known as the "ISLAND" and had a forge(for smelting iron) on it by founding father John Potts back in the late 1700's.

The Pioneer furnce was built here in 1837,and was the first one in the country to use anthracite coal for fuel.It was the first successful blast furnace in the country using anthracite coal.
It passed through many hands over the years and was finally bought out by the Atkins Bros.in 1853(go see their mansion behind KFC;Corners of South Center St. & Weigard Blvd.;It was newly renovated and is now home to a bank!).It(the furnace) was expanded and torn down at least 4 times since its purchase by Atkins!
It's annual production by the 1860's was 28,000 tons(of iron) and employed 150 men.
Somewhere in the 1870's the furnaces were idle and later torn down and remained vacant land until the 1950's(?)
When Phillips-Van Huesen built a factory here for making shirts!
Phillips Van Huesen story began here in 1881 when Moses Phillips and his wife Endel began to hand sew shirts in there house and sold them to the local miners from a pushcart in downtown POTTSVILLE,Pa. And grew so large that he moved to NYC in 1890's, where the main shirt making companies were!
John M. Van Huesen from Holland was on holiday to America and met Isaac Phillips,Moses' son!
Van Huesen was the developer of the comfortable self folding collar!
And the two formed the company PHILLIPS-VAN HUESEN in 1910ish.
Anyhow a plant was built here in honor of Moses & his wife Endel( at the now John S. Clark Elementery school,16th street) and a branch at this site in the 1950's!
This building was torn down in the 1990's and when earth moving was done, they uncovered castings from the Pioneer Furnace of several sets of train wheels that where made into benches and used in the court yard behind the Schuylkill Rehab building!(eastern most building,Can see em from parking lot)
Cache located on east side of the "VERY BUSY" Pa.St.Rt.61 you can pull off into medical plaza parking lot for access.

Anyhow;Welcome to POTTSVILLE-South! And GATEWAY to the Anthracite Coal Fields!
Its a magnetic & enjoy!

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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WELCOME TO POTTSVILLE-SOUTH Traditional Cache

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