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A bird's-eye view of Mahanoy City, PA, as it appeared in 1889.
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Bird's-eye view. Perspective map not drawn to scale.

Credit: American Memory, Map Collection

Incorporated as a borough in 1863, Mahanoy City sits in the valley of Mahanony Creek, about 1,240 above sea level in the anthracite coal region of northeast Pennsylvania. A center of anthracite coal production in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was served by branches of the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia and Reading railways.

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