latitude 40.998 and longitude -78.081 The elevation is 1,296 feet. Peale appears on the Black Moshannon U.S. Geological Survey Map. Clearfield County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours)
Peale was a Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company (CBC) company town. Bids for building the town were due in May 1883. Construction was under way by July and by December, 100 houses had been built. Peale had a post office by March 1884. Immigrants arrived in bunches, with Swedes joining the Scotch and Irish. Slovaks, fewer in number, arrived a bit later (most Slovaks settled closer to the Grassflat mines). Almost overnight the woods had been transformed into a town with as many as 2,000 residents. All of this was possible due to the coming of the railroad and the opening of the mines.
Peale was once a coal company town of over 200 buildings erected by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company in the early 1880's. However, around the turn of the century, the coal mines were exhausted. The town existed for a few more years as the occupants continued to mine clay for making bricks. But then in the early 1900's, the whole town, every house, church, school house, and store were loaded onto railroad cars and transported to other locations. The former town of Peale, in Cooper Township, Clearfield County, is today nothing more than wooded hillsides beside the Red Moshannon Creek. The only thing left behind, along the dirt streets are two frame buildings, a cemetery with one surviving marker, dozens of stone foundations, a town well and the remains of the Peal swimming pool.
The town is built on a hill, at the base of which is Moravian Run, a branch of the Moshannon. It is divided into two parts by a small stream which runs into Moravian Run. The place is laid out with all the regularity of a city. Down in the ravine at the foot of the town are the slaughter houses, while all the stables in the place drain into the little steam which runs through the center. Far up above this on Moravian Run a dam has been built where ice is cut in the winter and stored in a house close by. A reservoir is on top of the hill back of town and distributing mains convey pure water into every street and from there to every house in the place.
Across the valley created by Moravian Run are the miner
Peale was a Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company (CBC) company town. Bids for building the town were due in May 1883. Construction was under way by July and by December, 100 houses had been built. Peale had a post office by March 1884. Immigrants arrived in bunches, with Swedes joining the Scotch and Irish. Slovaks, fewer in number, arrived a bit later (most Slovaks settled closer to the Grassflat mines). Almost overnight the woods had been transformed into a town with as many as 2,000 residents. All of this was possible due to the coming of the railroad and the opening of the mines.
Peale was once a coal company town of over 200 buildings erected by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company in the early 1880's. However, around the turn of the century, the coal mines were exhausted. The town existed for a few more years as the occupants continued to mine clay for making bricks. But then in the early 1900's, the whole town, every house, church, school house, and store were loaded onto railroad cars and transported to other locations. The former town of Peale, in Cooper Township, Clearfield County, is today nothing more than wooded hillsides beside the Red Moshannon Creek. The only thing left behind, along the dirt streets are two frame buildings, a cemetery with one surviving marker, dozens of stone foundations, a town well and the remains of the Peal swimming pool.
The town is built on a hill, at the base of which is Moravian Run, a branch of the Moshannon. It is divided into two parts by a small stream which runs into Moravian Run. The place is laid out with all the regularity of a city. Down in the ravine at the foot of the town are the slaughter houses, while all the stables in the place drain into the little steam which runs through the center. Far up above this on Moravian Run a dam has been built where ice is cut in the winter and stored in a house close by. A reservoir is on top of the hill back of town and distributing mains convey pure water into every street and from there to every house in the place.
Across the valley created by Moravian Run are the miner
