Girardville, PA

Girardville is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, 58 miles northwest of Reading. The 2020 census counted 1,308 residents. Anthracite coal deposits are in the region. Girardville was founded in 1832 and is named after Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, who purchased large land holdings in and around the town. Girardville had six churches, one New Community Fellowship Church, one Methodist Episcopal, one Lutheran and two Roman Catholic Churches, St. Vincent de Paul and St. Joseph. St. Joseph's Church was closed in July, 2015, while St. Vincent's was kept open as a worship center for the newly formed Parish of St. Charles Borremeo, with the main church in Ashland. The short version is that Girardville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Girardville: its past remains attached to the places people use now.