Editing Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Mahanoy City, originally a part of Mahanoy township, was settled in 1859 and incorporated as a borough by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill County on December 16, 1863.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} It was served by branches of the [[Lehigh Valley Railroad|Lehigh Valley]] and the [[Philadelphia & Reading Railroad|Philadelphia & Reading]] railways.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

Mahanoy City lies in a valley in the Pennsylvania Coal Region and was a major center of [[anthracite]] production; the area was embroiled in the [[Molly Maguires]] incidents.<ref name=grapple /><ref>{{cite news |last=Bulik |first=Mark |date=1998-07-04 |title=Dark Days of Mayhem Finally Emerge In the Light |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/04/us/dark-days-of-mayhem-finally-emerge-in-the-light.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131041306/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/04/us/dark-days-of-mayhem-finally-emerge-in-the-light.html |archive-date=2018-01-31 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Kent |date=2018-07-02 |title='The Molly Maguires' Real Story Still Attracts Interest |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2018-06-30/the-molly-maguires-real-story-still-attracts-interest |agency=Associated Press |work=Republican Herald |location=Pottsville, Pennsylvania |access-date=2019-05-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104012901/https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2018-06-30/the-molly-maguires-real-story-still-attracts-interest |archive-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> In 2010, the borough erected the Molly Maguire Historic Park, which features a [[Zenos Frudakis]] statue of a hooded miner on a [[gallows]] about to be hanged.<ref>{{cite news |last=Usalis |first=John E.|date=2010-05-21 |title=Molly Maguires story echoes through new Mahanoy City statue |url=https://www.republicanherald.com/news/molly-maguires-story-echoes-through-new-mahanoy-city-statue-1.800170 |work=Republican Herald |location=Pottsville, Pennsylvania |access-date=2019-05-19 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922005229/https://www.republicanherald.com/news/molly-maguires-story-echoes-through-new-mahanoy-city-statue-1.800170 |archive-date=2014-09-22}}</ref>

The borough's principal industries remain the mining and shipping of coal, although the demand for it has steadily declined since its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1930 the [[St. Nicholas Breaker|St. Nicholas Coal Breaker]] was built and went into operation in 1932. A controlled explosion destroyed the breaker in March 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pennsylvania-s-last-massive-coal-breaker-comes-down-ending-an-era-20180316-story.html|title=Pennsylvania's last massive coal breaker comes down, ending an era|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Allentown, PA|date=19 March 2018|first=Michael|last=Rubinkam|agency=Associated Press|access-date=30 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331040403/http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pennsylvania-s-last-massive-coal-breaker-comes-down-ending-an-era-20180316-story.html|archive-date=31 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=grapple>{{cite web | title =Mahanoy City, The End of Coal Country | work =Grapple | publisher =Keystone Crossroads | url =https://grapplepodcast.atavist.com/episode01-mahanoy-city- | access-date =November 17, 2016 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20161117211920/https://grapplepodcast.atavist.com/episode01-mahanoy-city- | archive-date =November 17, 2016 | url-status =live }}</ref>{{external media | width = 210px | headerimage = [[File:St nicholas exterior.jpg|210px]] [[St. Nicholas Coal Breaker]] in 2007 | audio1 = [https://grapplepodcast.atavist.com/episode01-mahanoy-city- Mahanoy City, The End of Coal Country], 36:23, Grapple, Keystone Crossroads}}

[[Fire clay]] abounds locally. The manufacturing of shirts, bedding and foundry products is also fairly prominent.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

In 1948, Mahanoy City became the first municipality in the country to have [[cable TV]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Mayer |first=Mary Alice |date=21 July 1970 |title=Oral history interview with Cable Television Pioneer John Walson |url=https://syndeoinstitute.org/the-hauser-oral-history-project/w-z-listings/john-walson-program-penn-state-collection/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411015206/http://cablecenter.org/w-z-listings/john-walson-program-penn-state-collection.html |archive-date=11 April 2016 |access-date=12 July 2024 |website=Syndeo Institute at The Cable Center |publisher=The Cable Center, Barco Library}}</ref>