Rough and Ready, Pennsylvania
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Rough and Ready is a village located in Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
near the confluence of the Little Mahantango Creek and Mahantango Creek
, which flows west into the Susquehanna River
. It uses the Klingerstown zip code
of 17941. http://www.hipcodes.com/Pennsylvania/Klingerstown/ The village was named for the gold-rush town of Rough and Ready, California
, which in turn was named by a mining company also named in honor of Zachary Taylor
's nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." http://www.nepanewsletter.com/townshttp://www.roughandreadychamber.com/RoughandReadyChamber.com/Our_Founders.html
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
-Notable people:*Boxing heavyweight great Muhammad Ali had his training camp in Deer Lake.*Charles Justin Bailey, commanding general of the 81st Division in World War I, was born in Tamaqua on June 21, 1859....
near the confluence of the Little Mahantango Creek and Mahantango Creek
Mahantango Creek
Mahantango Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin, Northumberland, and Schuylkill counties, in Pennsylvania in the United States....
, which flows west into the Susquehanna River
Susquehanna River
The Susquehanna River is a river located in the northeastern United States. At long, it is the longest river on the American east coast that drains into the Atlantic Ocean, and with its watershed it is the 16th largest river in the United States, and the longest river in the continental United...
. It uses the Klingerstown zip code
ZIP Code
ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
of 17941. http://www.hipcodes.com/Pennsylvania/Klingerstown/ The village was named for the gold-rush town of Rough and Ready, California
Rough and Ready, California
Rough and Ready is a census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States. It is located west of Grass Valley, California, approximately 62 miles from Sacramento...
, which in turn was named by a mining company also named in honor of Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...
's nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." http://www.nepanewsletter.com/townshttp://www.roughandreadychamber.com/RoughandReadyChamber.com/Our_Founders.html