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  2. Carbondale, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum - Wikipedia

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    This museum is part of Anthracite Museum Complex and was created in 1971 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, which includes three museums and one historical site: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, both in Scranton, Lackawanna County [2] Eckley Miners' Village near Weatherly, Luzerne ...

  4. List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Lackawanna ...

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    Carbondale: June 19, 1947 #5 6th Ave., at City Hall (6th Ave. side), Carbondale: Roadside Cities & Towns, Coal Carbondale: November 12, 1947: 208 Fallbrook St. (PA 106), next to guard rail, N end of Carbondale

  5. History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Carbondale Historical Society and Museum - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Coal Region - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Scranton, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The city is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, Pittston, and Carbondale.

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