Lansford, Pennsylvania
| Borough of Lansford | |
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 St. Katharine Drexel Church in the borough's historic district
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Carbon |
| District | Panther Creek Valley |
| Center | Panther Creek Valley, Southern Coal Region |
| - elevation | 1,145 ft (349.0 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°49′53″N 75°53′0″W / 40.83139°N 75.88333°WCoordinates: 40°49′53″N 75°53′0″W / 40.83139°N 75.88333°W |
| Area | 1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2) |
| - land | 1.6 sq mi (4 km2) |
| - water | 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 3,941 (2010) |
| Density | 2,710.0/sq mi (1,046.3/km2) |
| Borough (Pennsylvania) | ca. 1827 along with Coaldale, Schuylkill County, PA |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP Code | 18232 |
| US | 570 Exchange: 645 |
 Location of Lansford in Carbon County
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 Location of Lansford in Pennsylvania
Location of Lansford in Pennsylvania
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Lansford is a county-border borough (town) in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, located 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Allentown and 19 miles south of Hazleton in the Panther Creek Valley about 72 miles (116 km) from Greater Philadelphia and abutting the cross-county sister-city of Coaldale in Schuylkill County. The whole valley was owned and subdivided into separate lots by the historically important Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (locally called 'the Old Company') which likely settled some structures on the lands by 1827.
Lansford grew with the development of local anthracite coal mines, and was named after Asa Lansford Foster, who was an advocate for merging the small "patch towns" that developed in the area surrounding the anthracite coal mines. The population was 3,941 at the 2010 Census, a steep decline from a high of 9,632 at the 1930 census common to many mining towns in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Lansford's first school was opened in 1847 on Abbott Street. Lansford's first church, the Welsh Congregational was built in 1850 and still stands today on West Abbott Street.
The old No. 9 Mine and Museum in Lansford, a deep mine which operated from 1855 to 1972, is now open as a tourist attraction offering tours of the mine and a wealth of information on local mining history. A museum occupying the mine's former Wash Shanty building on the site displays a large collection of mining artifacts. One of the local mine bosses, John P. Jones, was murdered in Lansford, reportedly in connection with labor union strife, attributed to members of a secret society known as the Molly Maguires, many of whom were put on trial and hanged in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties during the mid- to late 1870s.
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