Coal Castles – Locust Spring Colliery (3 of 4)
The Locust Spring Colliery, near the Schuylkill County line in Northumberland County, is shown on the left and the town of Locust Gap and the Bradley School, on the right. […]
Coal Castles – Early Locust Gap Collieries (2 of 4)
A mule is harnessed and ready for service at the Locust Spring Colliery. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: In the early days […]
Coal Castles – Early Locust Gap Collieries (1 of 4)
A photograph of the original Locust Spring Breaker, one of a cluster of mining operations near Locust Gap. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in […]
Charles J. Price – Mining Inspector, 1908
CHARLES J. PRICE Charles J. Price of this place [Lykens], inspector of the 20th Anthracite District, as the son of William Price, is the only son of William Price, and […]
Coal Castles – St. Nicholas Central Breaker
This panorama of the St. Nicholas Central Breaker, opened in 1932, shows the enclosed refuse lines on the right and the Suffolk school house at the bottom right. The power […]
Coal Castles – Heckscherville (Anchor) Colliery (1852-1906)
Inside the Heckscherville Colliery breaker, 12 to 14-year-old boys pick rock and slate from the coal chutes. Several bosses stand by. From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville […]
Lykens – Eagle Iron Works – Joseph Duncan, Proprietor – 1908
A colorized, undated photograph believed to be of men working at the Eagle Iron Works, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. None of the men are identified. ______________________________________________ An article from a […]
Lykens Valley Coal – When Discovered
LYKENS VALLEY COAL – WHEN DISCOVERED On a Sabbath day in the year 1825, Jacob Burd Sr., and Peter Kimes, then living at the lower end of Short Mountain, in […]