Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Pennsylvania Coal


A Scrapbook Of Coal Related History

On this page, find assorted random lists, photos, stories and assorted information about collieries and coal mining, in Central Pennsylvania

Map Of The Anthracite Coal Fields In Pennsylvania

Coal Life Historians:
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Coal break, Shamokin 1851
Shows the scaffolding of a coal break system with conveyers and chutes for loading railroad cars for transport to larger coal breaking facilities.
See more of James Fuller Queens sketches of Coal Country Here:
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Centralia, the ghost town where an underground mine fire has burned for more than 50 years

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The Molly Maguires
A Time Line of events:
An Attempt To Understand The Molly Maguire Story
The Monument in Mahanoy City
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Pennsylvania Collieries

A list of Collieries Working on March 3rd 1936

Colliery - a coal mine and the buildings and equipment associated with it



Coal Twp:

Sterling Colliery


Shamokin:

  • Cameron Colliery
  • Luke Fiddler Colliery


A Miners Prayer

Coal Mine Disasters:


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Misc Newspaper Mentions 
The Miltonian, Jan 11 1923

When Coal Was Discovered In Watsontown


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