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Welcome to the Schuylkill Haven Home page. The Schuylkill Haven Home page provides as much information as possible on Schuylkill Haven. Knowing Schuylkill Haven’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Schuylkill Haven’s Home page, you will also find Schuylkill Haven’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Schuylkill Haven has a population of 5137. 45.1% of Schuylkill Haven’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.9 are female. 45% of Schuylkill Haven is married and 58.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $91,193, and the average rent is $623. Household median income in Schuylkill Haven is $43,358, and the individual median income is $27,290. Schuylkill Haven’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.6%), Hispanic(2%), Black(1.1%), Asian(1%), Multiple(0.3%).


Before Europeans settled the land that is now part of Schuylkill Haven, the area was occupied by the Lenape people, who were known as the Delaware Indians by the British. The earliest white settlers first arrived in the area in the 1730s, traveled north of the Blue Mountain at the modern Berks-Schuylkill County line at that time.


The first settler in Schuylkill Haven was John Fincher, a Quaker from Chester County, Pennsylvania. Fincher received a land grant of 225 acres (0.91 km2) on March 5, 1750, the day which Schuylkill Haven considers to be its unofficial founding. Fincher constructed a house and barn near the Schuylkill River, and called his small settlement "Fincher's Ford." The next known settler of Schuylkill Haven was Martin Dreibelbis, a German who arrived in the Spring of 1775.


Martin Dreibelbis constructed a house, saw mill, distillery, and a grist mill on the eastern bank of the Schuylkill River. He later built a log house near modern-day Main Street, giving Martin Dreibelbis the title of the first citizen of Schuylkill Haven. Martin Dreibelbis willed the original plot of the town to a son, Jacob.


Another son, Daniel, received an area east of the original plot, and a third son, George, received an area outside of the present borough known as "Seven Stars" (located north of Schuylkill Haven on the Schuylkill River). The original plot of Schuylkill Haven shows that the borough stretched from the Schuylkill River on the west, to present-day Main Street on the north (then known as Front Street), to Saint Peter Street on the east (then known as Jacob Street), and Liberty Street on the south.


Present-day Columbia Street was the main residential district.


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