Editing Ashland, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==

For a long time after southern Pennsylvania was settled, the area that is now Ashland was mostly wilderness except for a hotel in the area in 1820. A prominent citizen of the county, Burd S. Patterson, however, predicted that the area would eventually become a prominent mining town. In 1845, John P. Brock and James Hart joined Patterson in buying {{convert|800|acre}} of land in the Ashland area. In 1846, a group of miners led by Patrick Devine developed [[coal mine|coal seams]] in veins in the area. However, the town progressed little over the next three years. By 1857, though, the town had 3,500 people, and Ashland became a borough, detaching itself from [[Butler Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania|Butler Township]]. The first post office was built in 1853, and the first church was built in 1855.<ref name="livingplaces_20150626">{{cite web|url=http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Schuylkill_County/Ashland_Borough.html|title=Ashland Borough, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania 17921|website=Living Places|access-date=June 26, 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Thumbnail IMG 89456756.jpg|left|thumb|National Register of Historic Places plaque at the base of the Mothers' Memorial|190x190px]] The Mothers' Memorial, also known as the Whistlers Mother Statue, is located at the junction of [[Pennsylvania Route 54]] and [[Pennsylvania Route 61]]. The Mothers' Memorial is a bronze reproduction of the famous [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]] artistic painting: "An Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1", commonly known as "[[Whistler's Mother]]". The WPA-built "Mothers' Memorial" honors all mothers of the United States and it's the only one of its kind in the [[world]].<ref name="readingeagle_20090507">{{cite news|url=http://www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=137396|title=A day away: Mom-ument links Schuylkill town to City of Lights|journal=Reading Eagle|date=May 7, 2009|access-date=June 26, 2015|first=Charles J.|last=Adams III|archive-date=June 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627012553/http://www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=137396|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was designed by the sculptor [[Emil Siebern]], carried out by Julius C. Loester, commissioned and erected during the misery of the [[Great Depression in the United States]] by the Ashland Boys' Association and dedicated on Sunday, September 4, 1938, during Labor Day weekend. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] economic recovery plan of the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA) carried out the stone masonry work.<ref name="roadsideamerica_20150626">{{cite news|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2195|title=Whistler's Mother statue, Ashland, Pennsylvania|journal=Roadside America|access-date=June 26, 2015|author=Staff}}</ref> On September 17, 2020, the Mothers' Memorial, Hoffman Memorial, and the Veterans' Memorial, were added by the [[National Park Service]] to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as a Historic District.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm|title=National Register Database and Research - National Register of Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}}</ref>

[[File:Ashland Boys' Association.jpg|left|thumb|Ashland Boys' Association Pennsylvania State Historical Marker|190x190px]]
The Ashland Boys' Association (A.B.A.) was an inspirational story of former residents of Ashland who had to leave town for work when the [[anthracite]] mining failed in the late 1800s. Ashland men returned home every [[Labor Day]] weekend for little more than a century to visit the old hometown and march in the grand Ashland Boys' Association Mummers' Parade. This unique show of attachment to family, friends, and comforts of home erected the WPA-built Mothers' Memorial statue that became the Ashland Boys' Association's legacy – an American icon and a symbol of [[motherhood]] in the United States. The Ashland Boys' Association was honored with a State Historical Marker ({{coord|40.78368|N|76.33721|W}}) by the [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]] on August 31, 2013.<ref name="pennsylvania_historical_marker_program_20150626">{{cite web|url=http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886|title=Pennsylvania Historical Marker Program - Search for Historical Markers|website=Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission|access-date=June 26, 2015|archive-date=March 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321225956/http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_historical_marker_program/2539/search_for_historical_markers/300886|url-status=dead}}</ref> The historical marker was unveiled by Adam J. Bernodin, III and James Klock.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=212747|title=Ashland Boys' Association Historical Marker|website=www.hmdb.org}}</ref>

[[File:Goynebros1jpg.jpg|thumb|left|The Founders of Goyne Pump Company |190x190px]]
Goyne Brothers was a family-owned firm that came into existence in 1881. Goyne Brothers which later changed the name in 1903 to Goyne Steam [[Pump]] Company were manufacturers of general mining machinery, and in 1883, they determined to make the manufacture of mining pumps as a specialty.<ref name="google.com">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So85AQAAIAAJ&q=The+Goyne+Steam+Pump+Company+in+1911%2C+became+known+as+one+of+the+most&pg=PA278|title=Colliery Engineer|work=google.com|access-date=1 August 2015|year=1911}}</ref> The Goyne Steam Pump Company in 1911, became known as one of the most substantial exclusive mine pump manufacturing plants in the United States.<ref name="google.com"/> The importance of coal mining drainage launched out mine pumpers exclusively and the Goyne Steam Pump Company invented, engineered, manufactured, and sold over 250 different mining pump designs and sizes, ranging from single pump up to the largest compound condensing duplex machines practicable for mining purposes throughout the [[anthracite]] and [[bituminous coal]] regions of Pennsylvania, and the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2QBAAAAYAAJ&q=goyne+bros+ashland+1881&pg=RA5-PA29|title=Transportation|work=google.com|access-date=1 August 2015|year=1906}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So85AQAAIAAJ&q=goyne+pump+ashland&pg=RA1-PA26|title=Colliery Engineer|work=google.com|access-date=1 August 2015|year=1911}}</ref> The Goyne Steam Pump Company changed the name to Goyne Pump Company in 1955, and the company was purchased in 1979 by Goulds Pumps