page_title: Ashland, Pennsylvania
hierarchical_section_title: Ashland, Pennsylvania
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mothers' Memorial in Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania features a bronze sculpture based on the famous James McNeill Whistler painting: An Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, commonly known as Whistler's Mother. The memorial honors all mothers of the United States, and is the only one of its kind in the world. The Mothers' Memorial was commissioned and erected during the misery of the Great Depression by the Ashland Boys' Association, and dedicated on Labor Day weekend 1938. The Work Progress Administration (WPA) completed the stone masonry work.
context_page_description: Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 15 miles northwest of Pottsville. A small part of the borough also lies in Columbia County, although all of the population resided in the Schuylkill County portion as of the 2010 census. The borough lies in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky. The population in 1900 was 6,438, and in 1940, 7,045, but had dropped to 2,817 at the 2010 census.
  Ashland is part of the Pottsville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
  It is the location of Pioneer Tunnel, a tourist attraction featuring a tour of a coal mine on mine cars and a separate 3 ft 6 in narrow gauge steam train ride.
context_section_description: Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Pottsville. A small part of the borough also lies in Columbia County, although all of the population resided in the Schuylkill County portion as of the 2010 census. The borough lies in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky. The population in 1900 was 6,438, and in 1940, 7,045, but had dropped to 2,817 at the 2010 census.
  Ashland is part of the Pottsville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
  It is the location of Pioneer Tunnel, a tourist attraction featuring a tour of a coal mine on mine cars and a separate 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge steam train ride.
caption: The Mothers' Memorial in Ashland
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