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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Workingmen's Benevolent Association was a 19th-century labor organization that consisted mainly of coal miners. It was organized in 1868 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, with John Siney as president. In 1869, the organization called a strike of coal-miners from May 5 to June 16. There were some gains resulting from the strike. [1]
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.
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.
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 ...