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unusual facts about Hazleton


Mary Rose McGeady

Mary Rose McGeady (June 28, 1928, Hazleton, Pennsylvania - September 13, 2012, Albany, New York) was an American Roman Catholic nun who was widely acknowledged for her work with homeless youth in the United States.


Basil Takach

Thirteen deaneries were created with the following seats: New York City, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Scranton, Hazleton, Johnstown, Punxsutawney, Pittsburgh, Homestead, Uniontown, Youngstown, Cleveland, and Chicago.

Bishop Hafey High School

But on April 26, 2011, due to the decreased number of enrolled students in Holy Family and high-maintenance costs at the building, Bishop Bambera told parents that Holy Family Academy would move from the Bishop Hafey High School building into the former St. Joseph's Memorial School in Hazleton.

Continental Basketball Association franchise history

The Camden Bullets relocated to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to become the Cherry Hill Demons; but midway through the season the team finished their home games in Hazleton as the Hazleton Bits.

Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad

In the campground's later years, the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad carried such items as bands to the campground.

Ed Carfrey

Carfrey's minor league and semi-pro assignments include the Houston team (1882-1883, 1888), the Haymaker club (1884), the Athletic Cub of Schuylkill Navy (1891-1892), Philadelphia Colts (1894), Hazleton Quay-kers (1895), Salem (1895), Ansonia (1896), York (1896), Media (1897), and Mount Holly (1899).

Jerry Planutis

Planutis attended West Hazleton High School, PA, and served in the Army, during his period in Free Territory of Trieste played football with local team, appeared in two Rose Bowl games for the Spartans, and was head football coach at John Adams High School in South Bend, IN.

Mountain Top yard

Mountain Top's yard was the upper terminal end of the historic Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad's Ashley Planes funicular railways (1st begun 1837) which lifted freight over the steep climb from the Ashley neighborhood in Hazleton and site of a large Transfer yard bypassed by the former trackage of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and leased to the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

National Watch and Clock Museum

Other highlights include an exhibit of the pioneering automated machinery developed by the American Waltham Watch Company, allowing for the first time to mass-produce watches using interchangeable parts, a large selection of American pocket watches (including Railroad watches), and the "Engel Clock", a complicated "monument" clock built by Stephen Decatur Engel of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

Stewart SF01

AUTOCOURSE 1997-98, Henry, Alan (ed.), Hazleton Publishing Ltd. (1997) ISBN 1-874557-47-0


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