Lykens Valley Coal Company – Mine Tunnel, 1836-1869 – View 1
A view of the Lykens Valley Mine Tunnel entrance at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This was the first site of commercial coal mining in the Lykens Valley and was […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company – Mine Tunnel, 1836-1869 – View 2
A view of the Lykens Valley Mine Tunnel entrance at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This was the first site of commercial coal mining in the Lykens Valley and was […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company – Short Mountain Mine Tunnel, 1853-1869
A picture post card view of the entrance to the Short Mountain Mine Tunnel at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This tunnel was in operation from 1853 to 1869 and […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company – Short Mountain Slope, 1870-1915
A view from an old picture post card of the Short Mountain Slope of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, on the western side of Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company – Lykens Valley Slope, 1870-1915
A view from an old picture post card of the Lykens Valley Slope of the Lykens Valley Coal Company, on the eastern side of Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, one […]
Short Mountain & Lykens Valley Mining Operations, 1862
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 […]