The name, according to local tradition, came about when it was found that the previous name, " Minersville " was already taken.

The Minersville Coke Ovens was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Minersville was incorporated as a borough on April 1, 1831 by Act of the legislature approved by Governor George Wolf.

Minersville School District was involved in a nation court case gaining much attention ; Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 1940.

* Minersville was the birthplace of pool champion Joe Balsis ( 1921 – 1995 ).

* American Civil War Union general Benjamin C. Christ was a native of Minersville.

Barnette overruled a 1940 decision on the same issue, Minersville School District v. Gobitis ( also involving the children of Jehovah's Witnesses ), in which the Court stated that the proper recourse for dissent was to try to change the school policy democratically.

In a 6-to-3 decision, the Court overruled its decision in Minersville School District v. Gobitis and held that compelling public schoolchildren to salute the flag was unconstitutional.

Minersville School District v. Gobitis,, was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Minersville, Pennsylvania was 90 % Roman Catholic and there was significant animosity towards the Jehovah's Witnesses.

This was somewhat unusual, as the team's Minersville Park was a relatively small high school field ; the league administration may have been attracted by the favorable logistics of a second team near the Frankford Yellow Jackets in Philadelphia.

However, this strong talent was expensive, and difficult to make up even with sellout crowds at little Minersville Park.

As Pottsville's Minersville Park was a high school stadium with a capacity of only around 6, 000, team owner John Streigel booked the much larger Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the big game.

Frankfurter's adherence to the judicial restraint philosophy was shown in the 1940 opinion he wrote for the court in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, a case involving Jehovah's Witnesses students who had been expelled from school due to their refusal to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

It was found that the United States, by making the flag salute compulsory in Minersville School District v. Gobitis ( 1940 ), was impinging upon the individual's right to worship as one chooses — a violation of the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause in the constitution.

On May 2, 1830, Minersville citizens held an election at the home of David Buckwater for the purpose of electing a Burgess.

Minersville is located at ( 40. 690455 ,-76. 260242 ).

* The Pottsville Maroons played professional football at Minersville Park during the 1920s.

Minersville is located at mountain foothills, at the northwest of the Black Mountains, the southwest of the Mineral Mountains, and at the northeast perimeter of the Escalante Desert.

Home games were played at Minersville Park, a high school stadium in nearby Minersville.

Dick Rauch also returned to the fold, resuming his position as head coach. Based at Boston's Braves Field, the Bulldogs nonetheless had a two-game swan song in their old stomping grounds, defeating both the Buffalo Bison on October 27 at Minersville Park and the Newark Tornadoes on October 29 at Mitchell Field.

Prior to 1929, the Bulldogs played as the Pottsville Maroons and the teams played for their still loyal fans at the Maroons ' Minersville Park.

The West Branch starts near Minersville and joins the eastern branch at the town of Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.

As of June 2010, Gotti is currently serving his sentence in at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution ( FCI ) in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

On November 25, 1928, the NFL's Pottsville Maroons played the visiting Green Bay Packers at Minersville Park in a driving snow storm.

Although no one at Minersville Park knew it at the time, that touchdown would be the last Pottsville would ever score in the NFL.

In 1940 the Supreme Court, in Minersville School District v. Gobitis, ruled that students in public schools, including the respondents in that case, Jehovah's Witnesses who considered the flag salute to be idolatry, could be compelled to swear the Pledge.

Lithuanian Roman Catholic parishes could be found in Shenandoah ( St. George ); Mahanoy City ( St Joseph ); Minersville ( St. Francis of Assisi ); Tamaqua ( SS.

The Barnette decision overturned an earlier case, Minersville School District vs. Gobitis ( 1940 ), in which the court had held that Witnesses could be forced against their will to pay homage to the flag.

In 1940, the Supreme Court would decide in Minersville School District v. Gobitis that members of the Jehovah's Witnesses in a school could be required to salute the flag.

The Minersville Coke Ovens in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

This case would put Minersville " on the map ," as it reached all the way to the Supreme Court.

Hutchinson quotes Jackson as having remarked, “ With few exceptions, we all knew which side of a case Black would vote on when he read the names of the parties .” While Hutchinson points out that Jackson objected to Black's style of jurisprudence in such cases as Minersville v. Gobitis ( 1940 ) and United States v. Bethlehem Steel ( 1942 ), Black ’ s involvement in the Jewell Ridge case struck Jackson as especially injudicious.

The Pottsville Maroons played in Sportsman's Park ( or Minersville Park ) in nearby Minersville, now the site of King's Village shopping plaza.

During World War II, the Court continued to favor government power, upholding the internment of Japanese citizens ( Korematsu v. United States ) and the mandatory pledge of allegiance ( Minersville School District v. Gobitis ).

Chartered in 1831, tracks were laid from the " flats " in Schuylkill Haven along the river through Cressona and Minersville to Tremont.

The city is home to five national historic districts: the Downtown Johnstown Historic District, Cambria City Historic District, Minersville Historic District, Moxham Historic District, and Old Conemaugh Borough Historic District.

These include the Downtown Business District, Kernville, Hornerstown, Roxbury, Old Conemaugh Boro, Prospect, Woodvale, Minersville, Cambria City, Morrellville, Oakhurst, Coopersdale, Walnut Grove, Moxham and the 8th Ward.

They were eliminated in the first round of states by the eventual state champion, Minersville.

Minersville is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Pottsville.

Later, in 1818, Jacob Reed, son the of original founder, opened another vein in the Minersville Area.