The Evening Herald (Shenandoah, Pa.)
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2,680 issues from 1891 to 1899, published in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The town of Shenandoah is rooted in the massive beds of anthracite coal located beneath it. This part of northwestern Schuylkill County was settled farmland by 1835, then acquired by 1850 by the Philadelphia Land Company, speculating in future coal mining. Spurred by wartime demand for new coal sources, the company surveyed the land and laid out a town in 1862, naming it Shenandoah, after the nearby creek.
The first colliery (coal mine and outbuildings) opened in Shenandoah in 1862, and coal was being shipped by rail by 1864. Miners and laborers from England, Wales, Ireland, and Eastern Europe poured in to work in the mines, on the railroads, and in secondary industries including textiles and meat-packing. Shenandoah became the only town in Pennsylvania with depots for three major rail companies: the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley, and the Reading railroads. The town was incorporated as a borough in 1866. Shenandoah’s population grew to almost 16,000 by the 1890s and passed 20,000 by 1900.
The Shenandoah Herald published its first issue on May 28, 1870, under the editorship of Henry C. Boyer and his brother-in-law, Thomas J. Foster. The Herald initially was eight pages long (later four) and $2 a year. It was politically independent and in its first few years claimed a circulation of 960, while Shenandoah had a population of 2,500.
Henry Boyer was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, but lived in Schuylkill County most of his life. He apprenticed as a printer, served in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress