Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Weatherly, PA

Weatherly is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, about 12 miles northwest of Jim Thorpe, the county seat.

The borough traces its founding to 1825, when Benjamin Romig bought a 400-acre piece of timber land on the west side of Black Creek.

The town was originally called Black Creek, after the dark color of the creek's water, which was stained by the hemlock swamps it flowed from.

In 1848 the town was renamed Weatherly for David Weatherly, a clockmaker and Beaver Meadow Railroad director who promised to present the town with a clock if it took his name, but he returned to Philadelphia for cancer treatment and died before he could build it.

Weatherly finally got its clock decades later, when steel magnate Charles M. Schwab and his wife Eurana funded the clock built into the tower of the town's school, the Mrs. C.M. Schwab School, built in 1901.

Weatherly was incorporated as a borough on October 8, 1863.

The Beaver Meadow Railroad, and later the Lehigh Valley Railroad that absorbed it, drove Weatherly's growth, and the borough's population jumped from about 500 in 1850 to nearly 3,000 by 1890.

Weatherly began generating its own electricity using coal-fired boilers in 1889, remarkably early for a small Pennsylvania town.

According to the borough's own history, Weatherly's Read and Lovatt silk mill grew into the world's largest silk throwing mill, with 40,000 spinning machines employing about 1,500 women.

Weatherly's population was 2,541 at the 2020 census.