Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa. c. 1900 "Breaker of the Chauncy (Pa.) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping #1946.) The Coroner told me that the McKee boy was but a few days past his 15th birthday when he was killed, and that the …
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PA Mining History. Room-and-pillar mines have been active in Pennsylvania's bituminous coalfields since the late-1700s. Bituminous coal was first mined in Pennsylvania at "Coal …
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The Coal Mine Compensation Rating Bureau of PA (CMCRB) is a licensed rating organization for Workers Compensation insurance in PA. The CMCRB is not a government entity, but is a private, non-profit corporation. ... There are two (2) such Workers Compensation rating organizations licensed in PA; the CMCRB and the Pennsylvania …
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1878: Statistics for the First Bituminous Coal District of Pennsylvania were: total amount of coal shipped: 9,372,881 tons; 217 coal mines operating in 1878; 244 in 1879; 93 reported accidents; 32 fatal. Average number of miners employed in each mine of the first district, 77. Average amount of coal mined by each mine, 500 tons.
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— The Lackawanna Coal Mine opened in 1860 and is set in the Northern Anthracite Coal Field, the largest of four coal fields in Pennsylvania. Before opening the mine, engineers had to figure out how to drain the entire valley of water to a depth of hundreds of feet. The mine operated for the next century, before finally closing in 1966.
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In the late nineteenth century, young "breaker boys" worked in anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania removing impurities such as slate from the coal before it was shipped out. The coal would be broken into smaller pieces in the coal breakers and the young workers, hunched over conveyor belts, would pick through it to remove contaminants ...
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There were numerous varieties of timber, but its value was trifling and a long period elapsed before the waters of Shamokin creek at this part of its course were made to subserve a useful purpose in furnishing the power for a single saw mill; and there was coal in practically inexhaustible quantities, but its existence was scarcely known and ...
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Maps. Active Underground Bituminous Coal Mining Application The Active Underground Bituminous Coal Mining application enables users to view and select active and historic mining activity in the Pennsylvania's bituminous coal seams including: active underground permit boundaries, longwall mining panels, longwall panel plus dates and mined out areas.
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— Mining in Pennsylvania: A Brief History. Pennsylvania has a long and rich coal mining history dating back to the 1700s. Anthracite, or hard coal, was mined in the eastern part of the state as early as 1775, …
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— One such site is the Number 9 Coal Mine and Museum in Lansford, PA. The Number 9 Coal Mine was opened in 1855 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The mine featured miles of tunnels and went as far as 800 feet below the surface. It produced a significant amount of anthracite coal from the Panther Valley's Mammoth …
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— A guide detailing resources for researching the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Skip to Main Content. Penn State University Penn State University ... The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah is the world's largest repository of genealogy records. ... This volume covers coal mine disasters and consists …
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— He has written and spoken widely on the topic of the New Immigration into the Appalachian coal fields, and on Himlerville, the cooperative mining town that in the 1920s existed at Beauty, KY. …
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Pennsylvania Coal Culture Resources provides additional articles, oral history interviews, websites, and other resources about coal mining. Collections The following manuscript groups, held in IUP Special Collections and University Archives, document coal mining history in western Pennsylvania from the perspective of the coal miner, company ...
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View of a coal company town in Cambria County. The coal industry in Cambria County grew gradually through the 1800s. In 1885, the county was home to almost two dozen mines; by 1901, that number had grown to …
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When looking at the history of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania, it is extremely difficult to find a concise timeline of historical events which shaped its future. This is our way to …
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— He wrote the book "Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania" for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1996. In 1796, the French government sent engineer Victor Collot to survey and map the area.
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— The colliery serves as a focal point for a review of local anthracite mining from its origin until today in this 250th anniversary year of the discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania. × This ...
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This enormous resource contains thousands of detailed coal mine maps that can be overlaid on a variety of base maps for the entire state, including terrain, topographic and road maps, and aerial photographs.
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— Miners marched to Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, to protest harsh working conditions. Wikicommons. At the western entrance of the coal …
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Published since the 1870s this report contains production statistics, mine names, locations, owner information, and accident statistics. Prior to the mid-1880s the reports for anthracite and bituminous coal were produced by separate agencies; therefore early reports for bituminous coal are available as part III "Industrial Statistics" of the Annual Report of the …
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— This dismal story about the mining patch towns of Pennsylvania's anthracite Coal Region appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine on June 23, 1888. Such villages could be found in isolated …
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— The other coal mines opened in the area included the Continental Mine opened in 1863, the Centralia Mine opened in 1862, and the Hazeldell Colliery Mine opened in 1960. For transportation, the town relied on the Mine Run Railroad built in 1854. With increased coal production Centralia grew rapidly reaching a peak population of about …
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— Bootleg miners often utilized a technique called "pillar robbing." Pillars were made of coal and used to support the roofs of the mines. The coal in the pillars was too good for the bootleg miners to …
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In 1912, its first full year after the reorganization, the firm produced 3.5 million tons of coal from 30 mines, operated nearly 1,000 beehive coal ovens, and employed 3,000 people – more than twice the employees of the county's next largest coal concern. The company continued to mine until the 1950s, when demand for Pennsylvania coal ...
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HARMARVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. Harmar Coal Company's Harmar Mine was opened in 1915 by the Consumers' Coal Co. It was one of the last coal mines in the Freeport Coalfield when Consol closed it in 1980, but many people remember it as a captive mine of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. Older people will remember seeing the big Harmar …
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However, these Winburne houses were probably owned by Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp. to house the miners of their No. 45, 46, and 47 mines. These coal from these mines was cleaned in a large preparation plant that was still loading trains as late as the 1950s. March 2024 image by author Management level houses at Winburne.
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— The color isn't the result of the golden hour, but of decades of pollution caused by abandoned coal mines that have choked the creek of life. An avid outdoorsman, Kania moved to the area in 1982 to accept a job with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] as a coal mine regulator. The state of the creek …
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— Mining in Pennsylvania: A Brief History. Pennsylvania has a long and rich coal mining history dating back to the 1700s. Anthracite, or hard coal, was mined in the eastern part of the state as early as 1775, while bituminous, or soft coal, was mined in Western Pennsylvania beginning around 1760. ... there are still over 40 underground …
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— Pennsylvania's rich coal mining history dates back centuries to the late 1700s and boomed between 1870 and 1930. The pictures collected in this article were taken by John Collier, an Office of War …
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