Quakake, Pennsylvania

Tamanend is an unincorporated community in Schuylkill County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Grier City is a census-designated place located in Rush Township, Schuylkill County in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Grier City was part of the Grier City-Park Crest CDP for the 2000 census, before splitting into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census, the other being Park Crest. The community is located off Interstate 81. As of the 2010 census, the population was 241 residents. As of the 2020 census, the population was 296 residents.

Marian Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown. It was established in 1954 after the consolidation of St. Jerome's High School in Tamaqua, St. Mary's High School in Coaldale, and St. Ann's High School in Lansford. Its original location consisted of a three town campus located in the towns of Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford. Marian Catholic's current campus was constructed on farmland in Rush Township in 1964.

Delano Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. Formed in 1882 from part of Rush Township, it is named for Warren Delano Jr., maternal grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.

Delano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census.

Park Crest is a census-designated place located in Rush Township in Schuylkill County in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Park Crest was part of the Grier City-Park Crest CDP for the 2000 census, before splitting into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census, the other being Grier City. The community is located off Interstate 81. As of the 2010 census, the population was 542 residents.

Grier City-Park Crest was a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 954 at the 2000 census. For the 2010 census the area was split into two CDPs, Grier City and Park Crest.

Tuscarora State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 1,618 acres (655 ha) in Rush, Ryan, Schuylkill Townships, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The most prominent features of the park are Locust Mountain and Tuscarora Lake. The park is named for the Tuscarora Indians, who lived in the area, following the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, until they were forced out by the colonial settlers of Pennsylvania. Tuscarora State Park is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Tamaqua just off of Pennsylvania Route 54.

Quakake Creek (pronounced QWAY-kake) is a 12.0-mile-long (19.3 km) tributary of Black Creek in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Quakake Creek (Unami for "pine woods") joins Black Creek near the borough of Weatherly, approximately 4.3 miles (6.9 km) upstream of the Lehigh River.

The Kelayres massacre was a shooting attack that took place the evening of November 5, 1934 in the coal-mining village of Kelayres, Pennsylvania. An election-eve parade and rally by Democrats was fired on by multiple shooters as it passed the home of Joseph James Bruno, known as "Big Joe", the local Republican boss. Three victims died almost immediately and two others died over the next two days.The attack received national news coverage, and accounts of it shared the front page with early election news in several major newspapers. The top newly elected Pennsylvania Democrats attended the funerals. Six members of the Bruno family were eventually found guilty of multiple murder charges in four trials, with Bruno and his brother Phil receiving life sentences. Bruno escaped from prison, leading to the then-largest manhunt in Pennsylvania history. He was caught eight months later. All of the Bruno family members were eventually paroled. None ever admitted guilt, and no motive was ever formally established.

Kelayres is a census-designated place in Kline Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States on Broad Mountain, just west of McAdoo. Reservoir Number 8 is just west of Kelayres and drains northward into the Catawissa Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. It is served by the Hazleton Area School District. The local pronunciation of the village is "Key-lar-es" and its ZIP code is 18231. As of the 2010 census the population was 533 residents. Kelayres is in area code 570, served by the 929 McAdoo exchange.

McAdoo is a borough and coal town in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Hazleton and seven miles north of Tamaqua. McAdoo contains the picturesque Silver Brook Meadow. In the past, anthracite coal mining and a shirt factory, the McAdoo Manufacturing Company, provided gainful employment to the populace. The population was 2,477 at the 2020 census.