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The city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania claims that their town was founded around an anthracite-fired iron furnace purchased by John Potts in 1806, which was built on the Schuylkill River in 1795. Pennsylvanian Charles V. Hagner recalls in his 1869 book that an unnamed employee of Josiah White and Erskine Hazard accidentally burnt anthracite

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