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Eldred Township Schuylkill is tucked in a low-slung area of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The community lies between two ridges in eastern Pennsylvania, offering a rural landscape of rolling swaths of farmland and spread-out properties. "It’s a nice, quiet area,” says Christine McAfee, an associate broker with Re/Max Unlimited Real Estate.

Framed by mountains along the Mahantongo Valley, Upper Mahantongo is a rural township on the western edge of Schuylkill County. The region's wild, bucolic beauty inspired a distinctive style of painted Pennsylvania Dutch folk furniture during the same era that fertile soil in the foothills was spawning long chains of mountainous mill towns and