A photograph from about 1886 of coal operation along Pottsville’s Coal Street, now Route 61, at left, which includes the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company shops and the new railroad station which is under construction. The scrap yard is in the foreground.
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Photo was published in the Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) in the column “Coal Castles,” 8 August 1998. Contributed by Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library.
Obtained through Newspapers.com.
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