Editing Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (section)

===20th century===
Tamaqua remained a thriving community throughout the heyday of coal production in the United States through the early 20th century. Certain sections of the borough, such as Dutch Hill and the South Ward, had a reputation for "toughness." Those sections were also densely populated by immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. However, in the 1950s, as [[coal mining]] began tapering off, Tamaqua and other [[Coal Region]] communities built on [[anthracite]] began declining. 

In 1955. [[Hurricane Diane]] caused tremendous damage to Tamaqua's railroad yards, and they never fully recovered. In 1971, the borough annexed neighboring [[Rahn Township, Pennsylvania|Rahn Township]]<ref>Kuchta, David.[http://www.coaldaleborough.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=67 The History of Coaldale, PA].</ref> and its Owl Creek section, home to the world's first [[fish hatchery]].

In 1945, John E. Morgan established a knitwear manufacturing industry in Hometown, two miles north of Tamaqua. The company, Morgan Knitting Mills, Inc., grew into the second-largest employer in the area behind [[Atlas Powder Company]]. 

In the mid 1950s, Morgan, working from a design developed by his wife, Anna Hoban Morgan, patented the widely known [[Long underwear|thermal underwear]] product lines. Since Morgan's death in 2000, the Morgan Trust has donated money to various causes in the Tamaqua area and established the John & Dorothy Morgan Cancer Center at [[Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest]] in [[Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]].

Dial telephone service arrived in Tamaqua on August 6, 1961. The borough uses [[area codes 570 and 272]]. Operators who worked the 12-position switchboard on the top floor of the Tamaqua National Bank at West Broad and Berwick Streets were transferred to [[Bell System|Bell Telephone]] toll centers in either [[Hazleton, Pennsylvania|Hazleton]] or [[Pottsville, Pennsylvania|Pottsville]]. 

The 55-block [[Tamaqua Historic District]], [[Anthracite Bank Building]], [[George Ormrod House]], and [[Tamaqua station]] have each been named to the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>