Coal Castles – Burnside Colliery
Burnside Colliery is located 2.5 miles south of Shamokin in Coal Township, Northumberland County, on the Big Mountain Improvement Company tract. The colliery was opened with a drift on the […]
Coal Castles – Pine Knot Shaft Colliery
From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997: The Pine Knot Shaft Colliery was located on the West Branch of the Schuylkill River west of […]
Coal Castles – Buck Mountain Colliery
An undated photograph of the Buck Mountain Colliery near Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The photo appeared in Schuylkill Memories, Pottsville Republican, October 8, 1997. The Buck Mountain Breaker is shown […]
Branchdale – William Irving Killed by Fall of Coal, 1903
DEATHS – From the Lykens Standard, December 25, 1903: William Irving, a much esteemed young man, aged 27 years, was badly crushed about the head and body by a fall […]
Total Loss by Fire of Brookside Breaker, 1885
From Wilkes-Barre News, April 27, 1885: A COAL BREAKER BURNED A Spark Starts a Fire That Destroys $30,000 Worth of Property POTTSVILLE, April 26 [1885] –A spark from an engine […]
Coal Castles – Westwood Colliery
An undated photograph showing Pottsville’s Coal Street (now Rote 61) at left, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company shops and the new railroad station under construction. The Philadelphia […]
Coal Castles – Bear Valley Colliery
An undated photograph taken at the Bear Valley Colliery near Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania: Bear Valley breaker boys, wearing their colliery-issue safety goggles, are pictured in front of the all-wood […]
Williamstown – Levi Miller Killed in Mines, 1900
From the Lykens Register, May 17, 1900: A MINE DISASTER A fatal mine disaster occurred int eh mines at Williamstown, Monday morning, that resulted in the death of one man […]