MAHANOY CITY

mahanoy city, a borough of schuylkill county, pennsylvania, u.s.a., 56 m. n.e. of harrisburg. pop. (1890), 11,286; (1900), 13,504, of whom 3877 were foreign-born, mostly slavs; (1910 census) 15,936. it is served by branches of the lehigh valley and the philadelphia & reading railways. the borough is situated in the valley of mahanoy creek, and has an elevation of 1240 ft. above the sea; broad mountain (1795 ft.), a ridge extending through schuylkill county, overlooks it on the s.e. the valley is a part of the anthracite coal region of pennsylvania, fire clay abounds in the vicinity, and the borough's principal industries are the mining and shipping of coal, and the manufacture of shirts and foundry products. mahanoy city, originally a part of mahanoy township (pop. in 1910, 6256), was incorporated as a borough in 1863.