Lithuanians Journeyed to U.S. to Work Anthracite
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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The Coal Region – Railroad Connection
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…
The Mahanoy Plane Engineering Feat
The Mahanoy Plane is an engineering feat that moved hundreds of millions of tons of anthracite coal up Broad Mountain, just north of Frackville, PA. …
A Coal Cracker Remembers
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…
Workin’ In a Coal Mine
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…
Black Lung Returns to Coal Country
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…
250 Years of PA Anthracite
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…