An undated, colorized post card view of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, looking north toward the culm banks of the mining operations. The houses in the foreground are not identified. ________________________________________ […]
An undated photograph of workers lining up to receive their pay at the Stephens Colliery, Trevorton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Scenes like this were repeated throughout the coal regions. The photo […]
A Pennsylvania Highway Map from 1930 showing the location of improved highways in the Tremont and Pine Grove areas of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The information presented below describes the improvements […]
LYKENS MAN WHO FIGURED IN 24 MINE ACCIDENTS STILL WORKING IN GARDENS Lewis E. Enders, 68, of Lykens, is about town doing his bit in the [1944] war effort by […]
TWO MEN INJURED IN MINE CAVE-IN NEAR WILLIAMSTOWN, MONDAY Two Upper dauphin County coal miners were injured, one critically, in a mine cave-in near Williamstown late Monday afternoon. The men, […]
An undated photograph of the Summit Branch Breaker, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _____________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Henry Clay Colliery was located south of Shamokin. The colliery was opened by a drift driven west […]
Burnside Colliery is located 2.5 miles south of Shamokin in Coal Township, Northumberland County, on the Big Mountain Improvement Company tract. The colliery was opened with a drift on the […]