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  • Canal started in Tumbling Run, ran through Haven, and then ended in Berks County
  • Senior citizens gathered along West Main Street below the railroad along the canal to chat and exchange views
  • Young boys used the mule yard along the canal as a baseball field
  • Boats would sail up and down the canal daily
  • Children would swim in the canal
  • June 4, 1853 a 40 year old man died from drowning in the canal

Swedish Haven

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Monday, March 5, 1750

$1.25

Landmarks of Haven

Then and Now

Sightings still found in Schuylkill Haven

Schuylkill Haven

Background History

Famous Landmarks

Night Depository and Smokestack

Swedish Haven, now known as Schuylkill Haven, was said to be founded on March 5, 1750 by, John Fincher, a Quaker from Chester County, when he was granted a warrant for 225 acres of land.

Schuylkill Canal

Back in Canal Days

Miners Journal

Reading Company Freight Station

Then and Now

January 10, 1846

Population in 1846: 1,640 total

Males

Females

Reading Company Freight Station as it was in September 1972.

Today, it is known as the municipal parking lot

Population in 2013: 5,341 total

The Columbia Bridge, covered back then, bridge now built in 1921

The warehouse for Bittle's grocery store at corner of Columbia and Berne streets, 1976 became Turkey Hill as it is today

The night depository box for the original Schuylkill Haven Trust Comapany still exists on the front of the current Uptown Tavern

The smokestack remnants at the borough warehouse on Haven Street recall the days when it was an electric generation plant.

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