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The Pennsylvania Miners' Story is a 2002 television film. It was written by Elwood Reid and directed by David Frankel. The film is based on the real events occurred at the Quecreek Mine. It was mostly filmed on location at Somerset County, Pennsylvania and some scenes were shot on the actual Quecreek Mine.
On July 24, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine (/ k juː. k r i k /) in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company, accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal / Harrison #2 Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million US gallons (280,000 cubic metres) of water.
It was possibly first used in Pennsylvania as a fuel in 1769, [citation needed] but its history begins with a documented discovery near Summit Hill and the founding of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792 to periodically send expeditions to the wilderness atop Pisgah Ridge to mine the deposits, mostly with notable lack of great success, over ...
In 1942, Office of War Information photographer John Collier visited the Montour No. 4 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Pennsylvania.
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly.. The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.
The Sheppton Mine disaster and rescue in Sheppton, Pennsylvania, United States, was one of the first rescues of trapped miners accomplished by raising them through holes bored through solid rock, an event that gripped the world's attention during August 1963.
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...
Elizabeth Pollard, a 64-year-old grandma, was found dead in an abandoned coal mine in Unity Township, Pennsylvania on Friday morning.