Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill and Columbia counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Pottsville.

Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky.

In 1845, John P. Brock and James Hart joined Patterson in buying 800 acres (320 ha) of land in the Ashland area.

In 1846, a group of miners led by Patrick Devine developed coal seams in veins in the area.

The Mothers' Memorial is a bronze reproduction of the famous James Abbott McNeill Whistler artistic painting: "An Arrangement in Grey and Black No.

[7] It was designed by the sculptor Emil Siebern, carried out by Julius C. Loester, commissioned and erected during the misery of the Great Depression in the United States by the Ashland Boys' Association and dedicated on Sunday, September 4, 1938, during Labor Day weekend.

was an inspirational story of former residents of Ashland who had to leave town for work when the anthracite mining failed in the late 1800s.

This unique show of attachment to family, friends, and comforts of home erected the WPA-built Mothers' Memorial statue that became the Ashland Boys' Association's legacy – an American icon and a symbol of motherhood in the United States.

[15] A small portion of the borough, constituting less than 1% of its area, extends north into Columbia County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Ashland has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km2), all land.

The southern border of the borough follows the top of Ashland Mountain, which rises 400 to 600 feet (120 to 180 m) above the center of town, except where Mahanoy Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, passes through a water gap in the mountain in the southeast part of the borough.

[21] along Pennsylvania Route 61 located at 15 Academy Lane, Ashland, the physical address, in nearby Butler Township.

[23] Occupational training and adult education in various vocational and technical fields were provided by the school district and the Schuylkill Technology Centers.