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Coal mining began in Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s to support the colonial iron industry. By the 1800s, Pennsylvania coal was fueling the industrial growth of the entire country and was the …
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The Alabama Mine Map Repository for underground mines is located in the office of the Mining and Reclamation Division of the State Department of Labor (ADOL) in Birmingham (see note …
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A view of the anthracite mining town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania - Late 1800s This photograph from the late 19th century shows Shenandoah, Pennsylvania from the heights on the northeast …
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Description from the Exhibit Introduction: Photographic History of Hard Coal Mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania was a Sordoni Art Gallery exhibit in 1976 that featured the original …
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Here you will find images related to the coal mining industry with a primary emphasis on the anthracite area of Pennsylvania. Pictures are grouped by location and will display coal breakers, miners and planes from the height of …
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Coal Mine at Mauch Chunk, published circa1837 by C.G. Childs shows a proto-industrial surface coal mine in Pennsylvania. Nineteenth- and 20th-century documents place the mine about eight miles West of Mauch Chunk, …
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PA State Archives Record Group 45 – Records of the Mines and Minerals Industries – Registers of Mine Accidents for the Anthracite and Bituminous Districts, 1899 – 1972 [Transcriptions in …
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Opened in 1855, No. 9 Coal Mine, located in Lansford, Pennsylvania is the world's oldest continuously operated anthracite coal mine. Closed in 1972, the mine was re-opened as …
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In the 1800s, the American industrial revolution was fueled by coal, and northeastern Pennsylvania had the largest anthracite (hard coal) deposits in the Western Hemisphere. ...
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Experiencing both boom and bust, the coal-mining industry has affected the lives of thousands of people in northern and central Alabama. The industry changed the face of the …
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It's a great example of mining technology used in the late 1800s, constructed to store coal coming out of the mine and sort the resource as it moved down the chutes. The tipple is a …
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Ventilation fans pulled in fresh air and sucked out dangerous gasses. Still mining was a very dangerous occupation. Just two years later in 1902 an explosion killed 112 miners at the …
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Margaret Bourke-White / TIME-Life Pictures. Pennsylvania's coal mines took the lives of many in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Of the 956 workers who died in coal-mining …
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Hempfield Coal Co. opened the Roseytown mines (Hempfield No. 1 and No. 2) in the late 1800s. By 1907 Keystone Coal and Coke Co. had purchased Roseytown mines and installed a ten ton Jeffrey mine locomotive. Later, the nearby Crows …
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The first systematic mining of coal in our region occurred in 1761. Small coal mining operations were common throughout southwestern Pennsylvania during the 1800's. But it was the advent …
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Anthracite coal provided the United States with over 75% of its energy needs from the early 1800s to the mid-1900's. Ninety-five percent of this country's anthracite (and 90% of the world's) is …
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History of Coal Mining – FacWeb. Fueled by the Industrial Revolution, coal mining began in Pennsylvania in the mid-1700′s. …in Pennsylvania's Bituminous coal fields since the late …
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Information provided within each report includes name of the inspector, name of mine, name of the injured miner, mine district number, date of the accident, cause of accident, whether fatal, whether the accident occurred inside or outside the …
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In the 1870s, Alabama began a lengthy period of industrial development led by railroad expansion, lumber production, textile manufacturing, coal mining, and ironmaking. The growth …
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Source: Alabama As It Is by Benjamin Franklin Riley, D. D., 1887, Transcribed by Veneta McKinney. THE county of Morgan was established in the year 1818, and named for General …
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These mining reports document the productivity and efforts of hardworking Pennsylvania miners past and present. This website is dedicated to the more than 51,000 Pennsylvania miners who died working these mines and quarries, to …
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Miners marched to Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, to protest harsh working conditions. Wikicommons. At the western entrance of the coal patch town of …
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Until the maturation of modern longwall mining in the 1960s, Pennsylvania's underground bituminous coal production came almost exclusively from room-and-pillar mines. Early room-and-pillar mines did not include retreat mining; they …
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The mammoth bituminous industry had humble beginnings. Europeans found coal in southwestern Pennsylvania as early as the 1740s. The first mining of Pittsburgh coal began …
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The history of coal mining in the United States starts with the first commercial use in 1701, within the Manakin-Sabot area of Richmond, ia. Coal was the dominant power …
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Fleeing from domestic famine in the late 1800's: Hordes of Lithuanians came to Pennsylvania to work in coal mines. Large numbers of Lithuanians first came to the United …
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and metallurgical practice in the late-1800s caused it to be used to make pig iron rather than steel. Later, the availability of improved technology permitted its use in steel ... "Red Iron Ore Mining …
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Anthracite coal mining started in the region in the mid-to-late 1800s. Originally railroad companies, like the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W), were dominant producers of anthracite at the turn …
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Coal mining was crucial in the economic and industrial development in Pennsylvania. Coal mining began in the late 1700s, in both the bituminous and anthracite deposits in Pennsylvnia. …
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Lansford: Home of the No. 9 Mine. Lansford is home to the No. 9 Mine and Museum, one of the oldest continuously operated anthracite coal mines in the world. The town …
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This dismal story about the mining patch towns of Pennsylvania's anthracite Coal Region appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine on June 23, 1888. Such villages could be …
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The Europeans first found coal in southwestern Pennsylvania as early as the 1740s, in surface outcroppings and river beds. Subsequent settlers found more coal as they moved into northern and central Pennsylvania.
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There was Pikes Peak in Colorado, which yielded gold and silver in 1859, but perhaps the most significant discovery was that of the Comstock Lode in Nevada, which would …
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