Pine Grove Historic District

Pine Grove Historic District occupies the floor of a narrow valley cut by Swatara Creek in the southern end of Pine Grove Borough, and its main street, South Tulpehocken Street, runs through the middle of it. The district's buildings are mostly two to two and one half story frame houses from the late 1800s and early 1900s, alongside brick and stone residences, churches, a school and a few commercial blocks. Pine Grove grew rapidly between 1830 and 1862 as the northern end of a feeder canal to the Union Canal, which carried coal from the western Southern Field. A canal basin on the eastern edge of the district remains, now overgrown. The district is also noted for its architecture, with examples of Federal, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Bungalow styles, including the Miller Mansion, built around 1870. Its concentration of both high style and vernacular buildings is regarded as the largest in western Schuylkill County.