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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 .
Eckley Brinton Coxe (June 4, 1839 – May 13, 1895) was an American mining engineer, coal baron, state senator and philanthropist from Pennsylvania. [1] He was a co-founder of the Coxe Brothers and Company coal mining operation which became the largest producer of anthracite coal in the United States at the time.
James Wong Howe and Samantha Eggar on set of The Molly Maguires Coal cracker in Eckley Miners' Village, a prop for The Molly Maguires. The Molly Maguires is a 1970 American historical drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. [2] It is based on the 1964 book Lament for the Molly Maguires by Arthur H. Lewis. [3]
Mar. 27—The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission announced that it will begin welcoming visitors to state-owned historic sites and museums, including The State Museum of Pennsylvania, on ...
Aug. 12—SCRANTON — The oldest tourist mine in Pennsylvania is now also the newest. The Brooks Mine, a model mine in Nay Aug Park in Scranton dating to 1902 but closed for nearly half a century ...
Eckley Miners' Village near Hazleton, and the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour in Scranton highlight the area's coal mining history, while Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum, both in Scranton, focus on transportation history.
A Florida man was arrested after allegedly hiding radio-controlled explosive devices in the restrooms of a casino, local authorities said. Bryan Robert Eckley, 46, of Tampa, has been charged with ...
Documentary research, oral histories, and archaeological excavations of the domestic sites of coal miners and laborers in the coal patch towns of northeastern Pennsylvania are the emphasis of the Anthracite Heritage Project. Since 2015, archaeology, preservation, and heritage research has been conducted at Eckley Miners' Village, which is ...