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Each year West Frankfort hosts the Old King Coal Festival. This four-day event is held every May. Now coinciding with Rend Lake Festival, held in nearby Benton. Formerly the Old King Coal Festival was held in the third week of September; to pay tribute to coal miners with a parade, concerts, pageants, carnival rides and a wide variety of food.
Carmichaels is located in eastern Greene County at (39.897755, -79.975022 It is surrounded by Cumberland Township but is a separate municipality. Pennsylvania Route 88 passes through the borough, leading north 9 miles (14 km) to Fredericktown and south 14 miles (23 km) to Point Marion .
The district consists of residential areas, coal mining resources, Cambria and Indiana Railroad shop buildings, and a dairy farm associated with the Ebensburg Coal Company's mine and developed between 1911 and 1943. Notable buildings include a variety of brick and frame workers' housing, the Ebensburg Coal Company office building (1914), stone ...
June 22, 1979 (Old Town Road and Muddy Creek: Carmichaels: 4: Colver-Rogers Farmstead: Colver-Rogers Farmstead: November 21, 2003 (East of State Route 1011 at Township 159, north of Jefferson
In 1917, an explosion in Old Ben Mine No. 11, located in Christopher, killed 17. [8] The worst explosion occurred in 1951, in the Orient No. 2 Mine in West Frankfort, in which 119 people died. [9] The West Frankfort quadrangle of Franklin County is home to 17 coal mines, according to a 2004 report. [5]
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The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum preserves the heritage of anthracite coal mining in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania and is located in McDade Park in Scranton. It features exhibits detailing the industrial history of northeastern Pennsylvania. [2]
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.