Pottsville usually refers to the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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The Pottsville Colts were a minor league baseball team, that played in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in the late 1890s and early 1900. The team was the second professional baseball club in Pottsville, after the short-lived Pottsville Antharcites that played in the Interstate Association in 1883. The Antharcites posted a 15-50 record, which garnered them 6th place in the league standings.

The Colts were then established in 1894 and played in the Pennsylvania State League. In their first season, the Colts posted a 62-44 record under manager Phenomenal Smith for first place in the standings. In postseason play, Pottsville defeated the Harrisburg Senators in a disputed title game, therefore winning the 1894 league title. The Colts returned to the Pennsylvania State League in 1895, and posted a 35-33 record. However on July 27, 1895, the club relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, after the Allentown Goobers disbanded. The team then relocated to Allentown for Reading, Pennsylvania on August 10, 1895 to finish the season.

Pottsville is a city in, and the county seat of, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,324 at the 2010 census, and is the principal city of the Pottsville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies along the west bank of the Schuylkill River, 52 miles (84 km) south of Wilkes Barre. It is located in Pennsylvania's Coal Region.

History

Early settlement

Charles II granted the land that eventually became Pottsville to William Penn. The grant comprised all lands west and south of the Delaware and the Schuylkill; the site of Pottsville was originally in Chester County. When the legislative Council, on May 10, 1729, enacted the law erecting Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which included all the lands of the Province lying westward of a straight line drawn northeasterly from the headwaters of Octorara Creek (near the southern borders) marked with blazed trees, to the Schuylkill River, then this placed Pottsville in Lancaster County. By enactment of the same Council, approved on March 11, 1752, Berks County was erected; this placed Pottsville within the limits of that county.