It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County ... was part of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a 15-day series of lectures throughout Northeast Pennsylvania. Beginning on Jan. 10 ...

Excepting the Potts Colliery in the Ashland District and the North Franklin Colliery at Treverton, to the Shamokin District, all the coal mines north of Broad Mountain in the Schuylkill region ...

Portions of central, northern, and northwest New Jersey and east central, northeast, and southeast Pennsylvania ... to mine fires. "Shenandoah itself is pretty much the heart of the coal ...

According to officials, Pennsylvania has the largest inventory of abandoned coal mines ... to reclaim abandoned mine lands on State Game Land 326 in Butler Township. Schuylkill Conservation ...

Pennsylvania’s coal region ghost town, Centralia, continues to capture the imagination and attract tourists, even when ...

In October 1925, the Pottsville Free Public Library was turned into an art gallery with an exhibit dedicated to life in the mines. Its centerpiece was an almost life-size painting of a miner, “The ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 29 -- D. O. Thomas, Coal Dock Inspector of the City of Perth Amboy, has just returned from the scene of the Pennsylvania coal strike. He thinks the strike will soon end.

MAHANOY TWP., Pa. - Some homeowners in Schuylkill County see nothing but a huge hole when they look out the window and into the backyard. A mine subsidence from an old mine shaft swallowed the 44 ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business. Investors like Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia banker and one of the richest men in the world, ...