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The Nanty Glo Home Page was established as a not-for-profit and free-to-use community website in 1997 by Jon Kennedy, a local native who began writing for the Journal while in high school and was its editor from 1962 to 1964 while attending Johnstown College ( now UPJ ).
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Census 2010 race data for Nanty Glo show a racial breakdown of 0. 4 % black, 0. 1 % Asian, and 0. 9 % Hispanic.
United Mine Workers and CIO official John Brophy is the only widely known Nanty Glo one-time resident to merit a state-provided historical plaque. John Brophy, labor leader
Commercial mining was initiated in 1896 by Dr. James W. Dunwiddie of Pine Flats, Indiana County, who opened up what was then called Nanty Glo No. 1.
Bethlehem renamed the mine Monroe Mine No. 131 and later renamed it Bethelehem Mine 31 and moved its main entrance from Nanty Glo to Jackson Township ( Leidy Portal ).
Other mines in what is now Nanty Glo and their starting dates included Lincoln ( 1900 ); Springfield, owned by the Peale, Peacock and Kerr Company ( 1907 ); Emma Coal Company ( 1909 ); and Webster, later owned by the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Company, Ivory Hill, and the Warren Colliery.
Schools Formal education came to Nanty Glo about 1898 with a school opening on what was then the Jackson side of the settlement.
The Blacklick Valley Junior-Senior High School ( grades seven through 12 ) is at 555 Birch Street, Nanty Glo.
The Blacklick Valley Elementary Center ( pre-kindergarten through grade six ) is at 1000 W. Railroad, Nanty Glo.
The first house of worship in Nanty Glo was the Methodist Episcopal Church, now United Methodist, established in 1901.
Over the years, Nanty Glo had several hotels including the Home, St. James, Commercial, and Jackson.
In addition to coal mining, Nanty Glo had at various times a chemical works, soft drink bottling plant, plastic factory, and a dress manufacturing firm.
Nanty Glo was incorporated as a borough in 1918, taking in parts of Blacklick Township and Jackson Township.
After the city of Johnstown, Nanty Glo was the largest municipality in Cambria County, with a population of over 5, 000, for most of the 20th Century.
That paper was purchased by Herman Sedloff, a Russian emigre working as a typesetter in New York who moved to Nanty Glo specifically to establish a labor-oriented weekly newspaper.
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On landing at Crakenthorp's inn, he was transported by Nanty Ewart, and a gang of smugglers, to Fair-ladies ' House, where he was nursed through a fever, and introduced to a mysterious Father Buonaventure.
This program is no longer supported, but was the inspiration for similar programs such as TrackDraw by Cary Clark ( no longer supported ), and BlueBrick by Alban Nanty.
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Both Time and Life magazines did stories on Nanty Glo as their prime exhibit for their coverage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's taking control of the nation's coal mines after mine workers defied a Congressional law by going on strike at the height of World War Two.
The May 10, 1943, edition of Life features a photo essay by Alfred Eisenstaedt of miners ' everyday lives in Nanty Glo.
United Mine Workers and CIO official John Brophy is remembered on this historical plaque put up by the state of Pennsylvania in Nanty Glo, Cambria County, where he lived and worked as a miner after immigrating from England.
The upper section of the river extends from the Nantahala Dam to the Nantahala Powerhouse and is called the Cascades or Upper Nanty by local paddlers.
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He published the first edition of the Nanty Glo Journal on May 5, 1921 and continued as its publisher until his retirement in the 1960s.
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Just one mile from U. S. Highway 22, Nanty Glo is the major entry point to the Ghost Town Trail, a biking and walking trail that traverses much of Cambria County and adjacent Indiana County along former railroad beds.
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