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22 Bald Mountain Road, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18504, United States. Coordinates. 41°24′55″N 75°42′48″W / 41.4153°N 75.7132°W / 41.4153; -75.7132. Type. Coal industry museum. Website. www.anthracitemuseum.org. The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum preserves the heritage of anthracite coal mining in the U.S. State of ...
The Harrison County History of Coal Museum, also known as the Puskarich Coal Museum, is a non-profit educational museum featuring information about coal mining. It opened in May 1994 in Cadiz, Ohio in the lower level of the Puskarich Public Library. The museum is open during the libraries' normal business hours from Monday - Thursday 9:00-8:00 ...
71000710 [1] Added to NRHP. October 26, 1971. Eckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located in Foster Township, Pennsylvania. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Bald Mountain Rd, McDade Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. Coordinates. 41°25′00″N 75°42′55″W / 41.416670°N 75.715215°W / 41.416670; -75.715215. Type. Mining, industrial history. Website. coalminetournepa.com. Lackawanna Coal Mine is a museum and retired coal mine that is located in McDade Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania ...
In 1942, Office of War Information photographer John Collier visited the Montour No. 4 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Pennsylvania. Gritty 1940s photos record the dark and dangerous lives ...
Hoffman, John N. (1978). "Pennsylvania's Bituminous Coal Industry: An Industry Review". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 45 (4): 351–363. ISSN 0031-4528. JSTOR 27772555. Latzko, David A. (2011). Coal Mining and Regional Economic Development in Pennsylvania, 1810–1980 (PDF) (Thesis). Pennsylvania State University ...
The Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum is a museum documenting the history of the isolated Broad Top Coal Field in south central Pennsylvania with Ron Morgan as its curator. The museum is operated by the Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society. The Museum and entertainment center was originally housed in the Reality theater in Robertsdale ...
In 1810, 176,000 short tons of bituminous coal, and 2,000 tons of anthracite coal, were mined in the United States. American coal mining grew rapidly in the early 1820s, doubling or tripling every decade. Anthracite mining overtook bituminous coal mining in the 1840s; from 1843 through 1868, more anthracite was mined than bituminous coal.