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Patch Town at Mackeysburg, Schuylkill County in the 1860s

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This sketch from the collections of Boston College shows the largely forgotten Schuylkill County patch town of Mackeysburg or Meckeysburg. The village stood west of Heckscherville in Cass Township. This was the heart of anti-war resistance and labor action among Irish mineworkers during the Civil War era. But the mines around the village never were particular productive. From the 1881 History of Schuylkill County: “At Meckeysburg, on land owned …
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Patch Town at Mackeysburg, Schuylkill County in the 1860s

This sketch from the collections of Boston College shows the largely forgotten Schuylkill County patch town of Mackeysburg or Meckeysburg. The village stood west of Heckscherville in Cass Township. This was the heart of anti-war resistance and labor action among Irish mineworkers during the Civil War era. But the mines around the village never were particular productive. From the 1881 History of Schuylkill County: “At Meckeysburg, on land owned …

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