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The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), [4] over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day. [5] It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the ...
Morea is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [3] Before that, it was part of the New Boston-Morea CDP. Morea is in northern Schuylkill County, in the southwestern part of Mahanoy Township.
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).
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. [1] During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. [2]
Most of the contributing buildings and structures were built between the 1880s and 1923. They include the extractive and archaeological remains of Colonial Mines No. 1 and 2 and related coke operations, 109 company built dwellings (92 workers' houses and 17 managers' houses), the Redstone Creek bridge, and the Smock War Monument. Other ...
A rock with high economic value from Pennsylvania is anthracite coal. Before mining began, there was an estimated 22.8 billion tons of anthracite in Pennsylvania. In 2001, 12 billion tons still remained in the ground, most of which was not economically feasible to mine. [3]
Experimental Mine, U.S. Bureau of Mines is a landmark located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bruceton, Pennsylvania.In 1910, the newly created U.S. Bureau of Mines leased a 38-acre tract of land from the Pittsburgh Coal Company and opened the Experimental Mine.
Fort Roberdeau, also known as The Lead Mine Fort, is an historic fort, which is located in Tyrone Township, outside Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.