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Parryville, Pennsylvania

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52: 845: 1284: 40: 77: 113: 120: 84: 917: 393:, the history of the borough of Parryville can be traced back to the late eighteenth century, when Peter Frantz arrived on this land in 1780, and became the first man to settle there. Leonard Beltz and Frederick Scheckler then arrived in 1781, and built a stone gristmill adjacent to the 51: 816:
In the borough the population was spread out, with 18.8% under the age of eighteen, 7.9% from eighteen to twenty-four, 29.5% from twenty-five to forty-four, 28.9% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 14.9% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-one years.
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living together, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.9% were non-families. 19.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
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there. This furnace was powered by water furnished by the Pohopoco Creek for two years, at which point company executives sold their plant to the Carbon Iron Company, which introduced steam as the company's new power source.
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Parryville became an independent school district in 1867 and was subsequently incorporated as a borough early in 1875, with Dennis Bauman serving as its first chief burgess. By 1880, the town had 657 inhabitants.
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installed a line, which enabled travelers to cross the river from this place, making Parryville a terminus and shipping point. Among the companies doing business there during this time was the
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The median income for a household in the borough was $ 33,958, and the median income for a family was $ 37,917. Males had a median income of $ 28,409 versus $ 19,688 for females. The
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The population density was 293.2 inhabitants per square mile (113.2/km). There were 222 housing units at an average density of 136.2 per square mile (52.6/km).
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In 1836, the Pine Forest Lumber Company, which owned extensive tracts of rich timber land in the northern part of the county and in the southern portion of
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In 1815, Beltz and Scheckler sold the mill and its related property to Jacob and Peter Stein, who improved the property by building a new hotel there.
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also passes through the borough, following a northwest-southeast alignment across the southwestern portion of the borough, parallel to the
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As of 2007, there were 7.80 miles (12.55 km) of public roads in Parryville, of which 1.30 miles (2.09 km) were maintained by the
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For every one hundred females there were 108.7 males. For every one hundred females age eighteen and over, there were 112.0 males.
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New life was injected into the village when, sometime around 1855, Dennis Bauman, his brother Henry, and others, established an
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to move its coal-laden canal boats to other parts of the region. These operations were interrupted in early 1841 when a
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Parryville's elevation is 450 feet (140 m) above sea level. The population was 416 at the time of the 2020 census.
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There were 189 households, out of which 23.8% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 62.4% were
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of 2000, there were 478 people, 189 households, and 140 families residing in the borough.
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History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 2.91.
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on January 7 and 8 swept away the railroad track between Parryville and
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Roughly 1.6% of families and 6.2% of the population were below the
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Hungerford (1884). 962: 960: 8: 778:The racial makeup of the borough was 98.74% 1168: 1154: 1146: 1022:"US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990" 802:of any race were 0.21% of the population. 517: 18: 867:Pennsylvania Department of Transportation 887:area and north 50 miles (80 km) to 1531:Boroughs in Carbon County, Pennsylvania 909: 855:Northeast Extension south in Parryville 416:Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company 334: 324: 300: 262: 241: 233: 204: 178: 143: 68: 48: 36: 537: 492:just north of its confluence with the 16:Borough in Pennsylvania, United States 1044: 1042: 374:and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of 312: 279: 254: 246: 225: 217: 209: 194: 186: 7: 1536:Populated places established in 1875 1102:. U.S. Census Bureau. 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Borough
Parryville in October 2011
Location of Parryville in Carbon County, Pennsylvania (left) and of Carbon County in Pennsylvania (right)
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Parryville is located in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Parryville is located in the United States
40°49′28″N 75°40′09″W / 40.82444°N 75.66917°W / 40.82444; -75.66917
Carbon
Time zone
UTC-5
EST
DST
UTC-4
EDT
ZIP Code
Area codes
610
FIPS code
parryville.org
borough
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Lehighton
Bowmanstown
Route 248
Palmerton
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Pohopoco Creek

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