An undated photo of men coming out of (or being lowered into) the Lykens Valley Slope at Bear Gap, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  The men are not identified. From an old […]

A cut from a 1947 topographical map showing the area of operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company (Short Mountain Colliery) at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

A cut from a 1893 topographical map showing the area of operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company (Short Mountain Colliery) at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

A cut from a 1892 topographical map showing the area of operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company (Short Mountain Colliery) at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

A cut from a 1943 topographical map showing the area of operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company (Short Mountain Colliery) at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

A cut from a 2016 topographical map showing the area of operations of the Lykens Valley Coal Company (Short Mountain Colliery) at Bear Gap, Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]

A 2016 photograph of the only surviving major building from the coal mining operations at the Short Mountain Colliery, Bear Gap, north of Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The […]

Short Mountain Colliery, located in Bear Gap north of Lykens and Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was the scene of many fires over the years.  A fire in early 2016 destroyed […]