It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia banker and one of the richest men in the world, ...

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 ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s ... The talk, which drew more than 50 people, was part of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a 15-day series of lectures throughout Northeast ...

Over 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan embedded its roots in the Northeastern part of the United States. One of their targets ...

Carlisle, Pa., got its name from Carlisle, England. But at least five towns got their names from the Pennsylvania borough.

Musical celebration featuring Durham opera star Graeme Danby will tour this spring and a date at Tyneside Cinema will combine a screening of new mining documentary In the Veins ...

Just in time for Black History Month, FamilySearch has announced expansion of a remarkable effort to gather genealogical information from cultures emphasizing oral transmission of family data.

But starting 3,500 years ago among Hittites, in what is now Turkey, most iron comes from mines of ores composed ... (Coke is to coal as charcoal is to wood.) These furnaces have a continuous ...

Once the dominant source of energy in the United States, today, 401 coal units supply roughly 16 percent of the nation’s grid ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission approved Saturday 11 land acquisitions they say would add 1,800 acres to State Game Lands. Two are donations, nine are purchases, and one is a right-of-way exchange.