Pottsville was known as Pott’s furnace (the anthracite-fired iron furnace) which was established on the Schuylkill River in 1795. In 1806 John Pott purchased the furnace. A map dated 1815 shows the location. The town was formally laid out in 1816 by a local surveyor, Henry Donnell. Pottsville was established as a village in Norwegian Township in 1819 and incorporated as a borough on February 19, 1828.
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