1892 Map of Pine Grove

About this map

The anthracite coal industry of late nineteenth-century Pennsylvania is etched across this landscape, where the heavy infrastructure of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and its many spurs, like the Brookside Branch, dictates the placement of towns. Major mining settlements such as Minersville, Tremont, and Llewellyn are clustered along the narrow valleys between the steep ridges of Sharp Mountain and Broad Mountain. These ridges run in parallel, northeast-to-southwest bands, creating a rhythmic topography that separated the industrial colliery towns from the more agricultural character of Washington township and the community of Pine Grove to the south.