Market St. Mahanoy City PA

[jeff of pa]

 

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[ahammer14]

What are we looking at here? An old canal under the street? Pretty cool

 

[jeff of pa]

only thing I'm sure is that Market Street, was Water Street in 1875



and the Mahanoy Creek ran through the Center of the street
and appears to be the block #20 facing East Towards Block #21 in the Distance,
where the Tall Building is.

Mahanoy City, Atlas: Schuylkill County 1875, Pennsylvania Historical Map

 

[jeff of pa]

in Tremont they did this also
and built a park on top.

at a spot where there used to be a Wishing Well.

The floods Burst through the top a few years ago

 

[ahammer14]

We have something like that up here in Erie.. Millcreek flood of 1915. Now Millcreek runs for miles under the city out to the lake.