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  2. Avondale Mine disaster - Wikipedia

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    110 deaths. The Avondale Mine disaster was a massive fire at the Avondale Colliery near Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1869. It caused the death of 110 workers. It started when the wooden lining of the mine shaft caught fire and ignited the coal breaker built directly overhead. The shaft was the only entrance and exit to the ...

  3. Avondale, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    19311. Area codes. 610 and 484. FIPS code. 42-03656. Website. avondaleboro.net. Avondale is a borough in Chester County, in southeastern Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,272 at the 2020 census.

  4. Ruth Wright Hayre - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Wright Hayre (October 26, 1910 – January 30, 1998) was an American educator and administrator based chiefly in Philadelphia public schools in Pennsylvania. In 1946 she was the first African American to teach full-time at a high school in the district and, in the late 1950s, the first to be promoted to principal of a high school.

  5. Avondale Colliery - Wikipedia

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    History. Opened in northeastern Pennsylvania during the mid-1800s, the Avondale Colliery was an anthracite coal mine located in the Luzerne County community of Avondale. Leased by J. C. Phelps, a businessman from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 13, 1863 from Henderson Gaylord, William C. Reynolds and others, the mine's first entrance was a ...

  6. Thomas Leiper Estate - Wikipedia

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    6 acres (2.4 ha) Built. 1785. NRHP reference No. 70000547 [1] Added to NRHP. December 29, 1970. The Thomas Leiper Estate, also known as Avondale, is an historic, American estate that is located in Wallingford in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

  7. Bruce Johnston (criminal) - Wikipedia

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    Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (March 27, 1939 – August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, U.S. The gang started in the 1960s and was rounded up in 1978 after his son, Bruce Jr., testified against him. The 1986 film At Close Range is based on Johnston's gang.

  8. Police impersonator sought after vehicle stopped on Route 1 ...

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    September 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM. AVONDALE, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are looking for a man they say impersonated a police officer in Chester County Friday. The PSP Avondale Station ...

  9. Coal mining in Plymouth, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    George P. Lindsay, the general manager of the Plymouth Red Ash Coal Co., began mining in 1913, and began building a breaker to process coal in 1914. The operation was, therefore, a latecomer among Plymouth's many mine operations. The colliery was located along Route 11, just east of the Avondale Colliery.

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