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East Norwegian Township

A remembrance of a boyhood in Schuylkill County during the Civil War

Posted on November 9, 2019November 10, 2019 by Jake Wynn

A memoir from the 1930s describes the hard life of a breaker boy in Civil War-era Schuylkill County.

Posted in Civil War, Schuylkill CountyTagged Abraham Lincoln, anthracite, Autobiography, Breaker Boys, Civil War, Coal Mining, Coal Region, East Norwegian Township, Memoir, New Castle Township, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County1 Comment

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