It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like ...
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A stance against terror: How a Pennsylvania community stood tall against the Ku Klux KlanOver 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan embedded its roots in the Northeastern part of the United States. One of their targets ...
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) on Wednesday announced that Eckley Miners’ Village — a landmark patch town preserving the legacy of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite mining industry — ...
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In the mid-1800s, many Irish arrivals purged ... arrived en masse to work in the booming anthracite coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania. The mines, which fueled America’s industrial advances ...
But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...
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Pennsylvania rescuers say ground unstable near sinkhole where grandmother went missingAbandoned mines and sinkholes ... spaces just get too big," the U.S. Geological Survey said. By the 1800s, Pennsylvania coal fueled America's industrial growth and coal was the primary fuel ...
It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill ... was part of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a 15-day series of lectures throughout Northeast Pennsylvania. Beginning on Jan. 10, the series ...
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