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Subject: Movement out of schuylkill county pa
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:20:12 EST

This is in response to Joe Kelly's question about people moving out of
Schuylkill County, Pa, in the 1870's.

Have any of you seen this wonderful website?

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/schuylkill/area.htm

It's Munsell's 1881 History of Schuylkill County, a book whose contents are
entirely online... There are a few wonderful chapters on the "great
depression in all manufacturing industries" in 1874 that struck the area.
This info can be found in Chapter V, at the URL:

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/schuylkill/history/local/munsell/hist00
04.txt

I have ancestors who left Pottsville, Schuylkill County, that year, and moved
to Trenton, NJ, and I'm guessing that this is why. Joe, where did yours move
to? I hope the above book is helpful for you!

Holly Knott in Mercer County, NJ

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