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In 1810, 350 tons of anthracite was mined in Pennsylvania. The use of anthracite coal was restricted due to the difficulties in transporting it efficiently, and the industry was still small and undeveloped. [14] The War of 1812 against Great Britain increased the usage of anthracite coal.
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.
Reading Anthracite Company is a coal mining company based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in the United States. It mainly mines anthracite coal in the Coal Region of eastern Pennsylvania. The company owns the Bear Valley Strip Mine in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania .
Aug. 12—SCRANTON — The oldest tourist mine in Pennsylvania is now also the newest. The Brooks Mine, a model mine in Nay Aug Park in Scranton dating to 1902 but closed for nearly half a century ...
Municipalities of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania (31 P) Pages in category "Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
In the 1890s, the two Schuylkill fields, the Southern and the Western Middle Fields, were a hotbed of the United Mine Workers Union. [1] In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt had to send U.S. National Guard troops to the region during the Coal Strike of 1902 and laid out his new precedent on solving labor disputes, holding both the company and ...
The Bernice Coalfield is in Cherry and Colley Townships of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The villages of Mildred, Lopez, Murraytown and Bernice surround the Coalfields. Primarily semi-anthracite coal was mined here. Both strip mining and deep mining was done.
Pages in category "Municipalities of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .