Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Shenandoah, PA

Shenandoah is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the state's anthracite Coal Region.

Shenandoah was first settled around 1820 - farmer Peter Kehley cleared land there in 1835 - and the town was laid out in 1862 in anticipation of the coal mines, then incorporated in 1866.

Fueled by anthracite coal, Shenandoah boomed to 20,321 people by 1900 and peaked at 25,774 in the 1910 census.

Shenandoah was a famous hotbed of Molly Maguires activity during the labor unrest of the 1870s.

Shenandoah was the only borough in Pennsylvania served by three railroad companies - the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, and the Reading.

In 1902, Shenandoah was claimed to have more bars per thousand people than any other place in the world.

During the Great Coal Strike of 1902, the Pennsylvania National Guard was sent into Shenandoah, and the strike was settled only after President Theodore Roosevelt intervened.

In 1884, photographer George Bretz shot his famous series of underground photographs of the Kohinoor Mine in Shenandoah, among the earliest images ever taken inside an American coal mine.

The 2020 census counted 4,249 people in Shenandoah, down from 5,071 in 2010 - a fraction of its coal-boom peak.

Shenandoah has roughly 1,600 households, about two-thirds of its homes are owner-occupied, and around 65 percent of its housing stock is made up of row houses, most of it built before 1939.