page_title: Hazleton, Pennsylvania
section_title: "Patch towns"
hierarchical_section_title: Hazleton, Pennsylvania / History / "Patch towns"
caption_attribution_description: English: A COMPANY-OWNED MINING COMMUNITY FROM 1854 TO 1870 SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS OCCUPIED BY MINE BOSSES ARE SHOWN IN THIS PICTURE. TH,E HIGHER YOUR STATUS THE BETTER HOUSING YOU RECEIVED. ALL OF IT WAS MAINLY ON THE ONE STREET ON TOWN This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 71000710 More images
context_page_description: Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,340 at the 2010 census. Hazleton is the second largest city in Luzerne County. It was incorporated as a borough on January 5, 1857, and as a city on December 4, 1891.
context_section_description: Many small company towns, often referred to by locals as "patch towns" or "patches," surrounded Hazleton. They were built by coal companies to provide housing for the miners and their families. The following is a list of “patch towns” in and around Hazleton:
  Beaver Meadows, coal was discovered here
  Stockton, founded by John Stockton
  Jeansville, founded by James Milens
  Milnesville, founded by James Milens
  Tresckow, formerly known as Dutchtown
  Junedale, formerly known as Colraine
  Freeland, originally called Freehold (founded by Joseph Birkbeck in 1846)
  McAdoo, originally called Pleasant Hill, then Saylors Hill
  West Hazleton, founded by Conrad Horn
  Eckley, founded by Eckley B. Coxe
  Jeddo, named after a Japanese port to which coal was exported by the Hazleton Coal Company
  Hollywood, part of Hazleton, named before Hollywood, California
  Weatherly, a small borough outside of Hazleton
  Humboldt, a tiny village outside of Hazleton
caption: Eckley Miners’ Village
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