The Penn Hall Hotel was not Pottsville’s first hotel, but for a time it was its most famous. When it opened at Centre Street ...

George Shoemaker, a pioneer in the anthracite ... start of the Civil War. The First Defenders last met at the Penn Hall around 1927. Shoemaker was one of the first persons to open and operate a ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

Coal is America’s bedrock — a gritty, enduring force that smelted the steel of our cities, lit the lamps of our progress, and ...

The burning of anthracite ... ashes on the top of a fire to keep it, is very productive of clinkers, although it answers the purpose very well in other respects. Damp coal screenings are better ...

South Carolina arrested three young men for allegedly starting a massive wildfire after failing to "extinguish their cigarettes in a proper and safe manner," officials say. The Table Rock Fire ...

to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, ...

The attack came just hours after Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine. A Ukrainian drone strike started a fire at a Russian oil depot ...