Editing Lansford, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Lansford's first school was opened in 1847 on Abbott Street. Lansford's first church, the Welsh Congregational, was built in 1850 and still stands today on West Abbott Street.
[[File:Schuylkill-Lehigh River Drainage Divides USGS, Hazelton-Mauch Chunk & Mountain Quads, NW+NE-4.jpg|left|thumb|1893 USGS map centered on the three parallel ridges that run SW-to-NE but pinch down and converge into a steep valley along the [[Lehigh Valley]]]]

The old No. 9 Mine and Museum in Lansford, a deep mine which operated from 1855 to 1972, is now open as a [[tourist attraction]] offering tours of the mine and a wealth of information on local mining history.  A [[museum]] occupying the mine's former Wash Shanty building on the site displays a large collection of mining artifacts.

One of the local mine bosses, John P. Jones, was murdered in Lansford, reportedly in connection with labor union strife, attributed to members of a secret society known as the [[Molly Maguires]], many of whom were put on trial and hanged in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties during the mid- to late 1870s.

Lansford was the home of the first [[Cable television in the United States#First commercial system|Commercial Cable Television system]] in the United States.

The [[Lansford Historic District]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2012.<ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20120914.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2012-09-14|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/04/12 through 9/07/12|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>