Маунт-Карбон: История и Трансформация Поселения

The borough was home for many years to the Mount Carbon Brewery, which closed in the late 1970s. D. G. Yuengling & Son bought the rights to use the Mount Carbon (Bavarian) name and label when Mount Carbon Brewery went out of business in 1977. Yuengling brewed Mount Carbon for a short time but eventually abandoned it. 7up bottling Co. then took over the building for years as a distribution and shipping point.

Mount Carbon has also had one of the youngest mayors in history; Mayor Jeffrey Dunkel was sworn in as mayor when he was only 18 years old. On July 16, 2015, The Pottsville Republican Herald reported that Mayor Dunkel will resign after 13 years for a
job opportunity in another state. He was succeeded by Donna Porter, who also resigned after moving outside the borough.

Mount Carbon was the terminus of the original Philadelphia and Reading Railway, opened in 1842. Mount Carbon was a very active location along the Canal. The Hotel which was located at the present Pottsville Pizzeria, was rumored to have royalty stay there on their travels. South Centre Street, Main Street, Sherwood Drive and the Mt. Carbon Arch are the only streets of the borough. Pennsylvania Route 61 passes to the east of Mount Carbon and access is provided by a bridge over the Schuylkill River. The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad operates along the former tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, later known as the Reading Company.

Mount Carbon is located at (40.672364, 76.187494). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), all land.

As of the census The first dam for the Schuylkill Canal was built at Mount Carbon on the Schuylkill River in the spring of 1817. The entire canal was in operation by 1824. By 1818, Necho Allen resided here, engaged in lumbering, and built a saw mill. Although coal was to become the principal commodity transported on the canal, the company conveyed lumber and merchandise as well. By 1828 the village consisted of six homes, one store, an office building and a large stone warehouse, used to store produce, which was brought in wagons from surrounding counties to be sent to market in Philadelphia. In 1829 John White (President of the Mt. Carbon Railroad) began the Mansion House construction here. During this same year, the Norwegian and Mount Carbon Railroad was incorporated and by April 1831, coal was being conveyed through Mt. Carbon from the rich coalfields north and west of present day Pottsville to Philadelphia. In 1842, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company had made Mt. Carbon the termination point of its railroad line from Philadelphia in direct competition with the Schuylkill Canal. The canal company was leased by the railroad in 1870 and the canal north of Port Clinton was abandoned at the signing of the lease. The Philadelphia and Reading Company leased the Mt. Carbon Railroad on May 16, 1862, and merged the line into the parent organization on June 13, 1872. In 1849, geologist Isaac Lea discovered fossilized footprints of Sauropus in red sandstone in Mount Carbon. Lea contended the tracks were reptilian and that due to the level of strata where the footprints were found, they were from the Devonian Period between 360 and 408 million years old and constituted a new species that he named Sauropus primaevus. The footprints have since been identified as coming from an amphibian now known as Palaeosauropus primaevus from the Mississippian Age over 330 million years ago.