An undated photograph of the Hooker Colliery, St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
The photo, which is from the Schuylkill County Historical Society, was published in the “Looking Back” feature of the Pottsville Republican, January 5, 1980. The text is by Joseph M. Hanney, who was the vice president of the society.
The old “Hooker Colliery” was operated by the Mount Hope Coal Company on the east end of St. Clair, near Price Street, beginning operation in the early 1870s.
It was known earlier as Jackson Colliery. Following World War I, the colliery ceased operation, and was later torn down. During the 1940s and early 1940s, the colliery was the scene of some “bootleg” coal operations. Today [1980], a large culm bank remains and a few foundations. The railroad tracks to the yards south of Saint Clair have long since been removed.
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