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Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, Inc. (ARHS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 to preserve historic anthracite hauling railroads of eastern Pennsylvania. [1] The railroads that ARHS is responsible for preserving include: [2] Central Railroad of New Jersey (1843–1976) Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (18??-1960)
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region is in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachian Mountains, with the coal located in the folded and faulted terrain of the Province. The anthracite fields are maintained in synclinal basins that are surrounded by sandstone ridges, which help to “protect” the anthracite. [8]
Carbondale was the site of the first deep vein anthracite coal mine [7] in the United States, and was the site of the Carbondale mine fire which burned from 1946 to the early 1970s. Carbondale has struggled with the demise of the once-prominent coal mining industry that had once made the region a haven for immigrants seeking work.
A small part of the Centralia mine fire after being exposed during excavation in 1969 Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010.
Through its genealogical and local history research center and exhibition galleries on the third floor of Carbondale City hall (listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 6, 1983, through the efforts of the Society) and through an annual series of public lectures, programs, exhibitions, and commemorative ceremonies, in the community and in the public schools, the Society, at ...
The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, both in Scranton, Lackawanna County [2] Eckley Miners' Village near Weatherly, Luzerne County [3] The Museum of Anthracite Mining overlooking the community of Ashland in Schuylkill County [1] A few museum exhibits are also located at the companion Lackawana Coal Mine Tour.
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.
The Carbondale mine fire began in either 1943 or 1946 when a fire in Carbondale's city dump spread to nearby mine workings. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is unknown if the fire was natural or man-made. [ 2 ] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a number of minor unsuccessful attempts were made to stop the fire by flooding the burning mine workings.