Some time after 1903, the Lykens Standard responded to a request to print a list of all mine-related fatalities at the Short Mountain Colliery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania…. The list […]
Short Mountain Colliery: Timeline 1910-1919 1910: Purchased new water heater for Bull boiler house. Constructed coal pockets for Bull boiler house. Erected new ash conveyor at Bull boiler house. Erected […]
Short Mountain Colliery: Timeline 1900-1909 1900: Placed set of rolls in Breaker to break down broken and egg coal. Purchased Blake slush pump, 12” x 8” x 17.” Trestle 40 […]
Short Mountain Colliery: Events Which Increased or Decreased Production (1825-1899) 1825: Anthracite coal first discovered in this vicinity by Jacob Burd Sr. and Peter Kimes, lower end of Short Mountain. A 1600 acre […]
LYKENS VALLEY COAL MINES Transcribed from: Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 1835 In my late excursion through the country, bordering on the Susquehanna river, I visited Lykens Valley, in Dauphin County, […]
An old print labeled “Mines of the Lykens Valley and Short Mountain Coal Companies, Henry Thomas, Sole Lessee,” was an illustration on an 1862 map of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It […]
A photograph of Gratz area miners on the path leading to the “Gratz Airhole” where the men climbed down a long ladder to get to their work level in the […]
The major mining operations that employed large numbers of men were on the other side of Short Mountain from Gratz and Lykens Township. But getting there was quite a feat. […]