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Mining, Hard Coal, and the Pennsylvania Coal Region

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Lithuanians Journeyed to U.S. to Work Anthracite

admin 04/23/2018
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an estimated 300,000 Lithuanians journeyed to America. This number is hard to document fully because census records…
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A Description of Life in the Coal Region Pre Civil War

admin 04/23/2018
In the autumn of 1931, a reporter from the Millersburg Sentinel sat down with Catherine Myers in her daughter’s home in Lykens to talk about…
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The Coal Region – Railroad Connection

admin 04/23/2018
By 1825, the Schuylkill Navigation Company had completed the Schuylkill Canal, which allowed for the transport of anthracite from Pottsville to Philadelphia in barges capable…
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Christmas at the Coal Mine

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Inside Anthracite Mining

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A Coal Cracker Remembers

admin 01/30/2017
John J. Stoffey, Coaldale, PA, was 95 when he died in early January 2017.  He wrote what he called “Memories of a Coal Cracker” in…
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Workin’ In a Coal Mine

admin 01/28/2017
Dirty Job’s Mike Rowe goes deep inside an Anthracite mine just outside Pottsville in Schuykill County, Pennsylvania where he gets down and dirty during a…
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Black Lung Returns to Coal Country

admin 01/27/2017
The deadly coal miners’ disease is surging back despite rules created to control the disease. What is Black Lung? An “Epidemic” Among Miners Advanced Black…
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250 Years of PA Anthracite

admin 01/21/2017
Plans are underway to celebrate “King Coal” Celebrating the anniversary of coal is a tricky business. That’s because there are many different interpretations of its…
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