Lykens – Bear Gap Tunnel
An undated, colorized post card view of the opening of the Bear Gap Mining Tunnel at Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The Bear Gap Mine Tunnel of the Lykens Valley Coal Company went […]
Lykens Valley Coal Company, c.1868
A photo from the late 1860s taken by photographer Isaac Kunkel of the Lykens Valley Coal Company’s breaker on the eastern slopes of Bear Gap in Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County, […]
Wiconisco – Birds-Eye View of Colliery
An undated newspaper birds-eye view of Wiconisco Township and the colliery in operation there. This was the Susquehanna Coal Company’s mine at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]
Susquehanna Colliery -Short Mountain Coal Breaker
An undated newspaper photograph of the coal breaker of the Susquehanna Collieries at Short Mountain, Bear Gap, Wiconisco and Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Note the tracks going under the breaker […]
Wiconisco – Short Mountain Slope
A newspaper photo of an undated post card view of Short Mountain Slope, at Bear Gap, near Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This image appeared in the Lykens Standard, […]
The Inclined Plane Railroad at Short Mountain Colliery
A picture said to be of the Inclined Plane Railroad at Short Mountain Colliery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. While this has been identified in at least two places as of […]
Deitrich Falls to Death at Mine, 1903
FALLS TO HIS DEATH Benjamin R. Deitrich, a young single man of Lykens, fell 200 feet into a slope at Short Mountain Colliery at Lykens last Monday, and died on […]
Rumor of Reopening of Short Mountain Mining, 1936
In 1936, rumors began circulating in the southern anthracite coal fields that the tunnel at the Short Mountain Colliery, located at Bear Gap, north of Lykens and Wiconisco, would be […]