The map below shows a five by eight mile section of terrain roughly extending from the Laurel Mall, west of Hazleton, PA, to Still Creek Reservoir in Quakake Valley. The east to west range extends between the upper Catawissa Valley on the west and the town of Tresckow on the East. The westernmost point once was home to a mine patch that we called Hunkydory. Two old maps, ca. 1875 were superimposed as transparencies on a recent (1969 and 1989) US Geological Survey topographical quadrangle. The overlay in dark blue color shows the mine patch towns and connecting roads between Hazleton and McAdoo with a small area of the now vanished Yorktown. The transparency in red shows a more detailed presentation of Yorktown in 1875. McAdoo and Kelayres did not exist in this era but are shown for reference and completeness. McAdoo had its beginnings in the small patchtowns of Honeybrook, shown here only as place names in the area immediately west of McAdoo and north of Kelayres.

Using computer graphics techniques most of the USGS topographical contour lines were removed for clarity. Similarly, the old maps were stretched and deformed to conform to locations of then-and-now existing landmarks. A large part of the background has been rendered in white, the better to show the ruined mining areas surrounding and within the small towns. The purple colored scrambled areas indicate strip mines and a variety of worked over fill, "overburden", (slate and rock banks), and mine refuse wasteland. Today's main highways and secondary roads from the modern topo map are shown in the same red color as the Yorktown transparency. This should not provide much confusion as the crooked old roads appear manifestly different from the modern ones.

Because the old maps have nowhere near the accuracy of a modern topo map, correspondence of landmarks is not perfectly accurate. We may be off by perhaps half of a city block near Hazleton, tens or fewer of feet around McAdoo-Audenreid-Yorktown. See further notes below:

Map: © Stephen F. Payer, 10/08/2003, All rights reserved

1. The blue overlay comes primarily from the "Atlas of Luzerne County Pennsylvania", by D.G. Beers, published by A. Pomeroy & Co., Philadelphia, 1873.

2. The red overlay, Yorktown in 1875, was found in the five volume Eckhart's "History of Carbon County" from the Dimmick Memorial Library, Jim Thorpe/Mauch Chunk.

3. The underlying topographical quadrangle is derived from a piecing together of four similar, downloaded and adjusted from The Pennsylvania State University topographical map repository. The region under examination happens to be near the junction of four USGS quadrangles, Hazleton, Conyngham, Delano and Tamaqua.

4. Note that the contemporary Route 309 lies near but not along the route of the old Tamaqua to Wilkes-Barre turnpike. To get from McAdoo (Honeybrook) to Hazleton, one went from Audenreid through Yorktown to Beaver Brook and did not descend the Number Six Hill to Church Street as in the present day. The road veered off to the left (west) near the memorial cemetery at Mt. Laurel and passed through Crystal Ridge, entering Hazleton behind and below the shopping center on West Broad Street.

5. An alternate route from McAdoo to Hazleton passed through Tresckow and Jeanesville, entering Hazleton through its southeast side along Hazle street.

6. For a wider view of this small section see the map showing the roads, towns and townships of the tri-county area.