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According to the United States Census Bureau, Ashland has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km 2), all land. [3] Ashland is served by Pennsylvania Route 54 and Pennsylvania Route 61. PA 54 leads east-northeast 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to Girardville and 9 miles (14 km) to Shenandoah, and northwest 16 miles (26 km) to Elysburg.
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1857 Map of the Routes of the MH&SH RR including the Ashland Extension. Although the New York and Schuylkill Coal Co. was legislated out of existence in 1832 and its land holding sold, the MH&SH expanded. Lateral construction to Deep Run and Mine Hill soon covered 60 to 70 square miles (160 to 180 km 2) of productive coal lands. [11]
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum preserves the heritage of anthracite coal mining in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania and is located in McDade Park in Scranton. It features exhibits detailing the industrial history of northeastern Pennsylvania. [2]
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A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910. By the 18th century, the Susquehannock Native American tribe that had inhabited the region was reduced 90 percent [2] in three years of a plague of diseases and possibly war, [2] opening up the Susquehanna Valley and all of Pennsylvania to European settlers.
Pioneer Coal Limited is a Canadian mining company based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. It was founded in 1980 by John Chisholm, owner of Nova Construction Company Limited. [ 2 ] The company currently operates one open pit coal mine:
Mine and processing-related buildings and structures include three original batteries of coke ovens (c. 1904), a wood and steel tipple (c. 1905), a mine entrance tipple (c. 1904), a brick power house (1905), a brick blacksmith and carpenter shop (1910), and a concrete block supply house (c. 1919).