The Pottsville Maroons, Cheated Again and Again

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Pottsville Maroons, Cheated Again and Again Pottsville, like many communities in the Roaring Twenties, was a rugged, hard-living, hard-working city. The small Schuylkill County seat in northeastern Pennsylvania was best known for the booming anthracite industry and D. G. Yuengling and Son, established in 1829 and touted as America’s oldest family-owned brewery. Coal mining had been good to Pottsville, crowned the Queen City of the...
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