The front page of the Pottsville Republican, February 9, 1939, reporting that three men from Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, were buried in a bootleg mine cave-in near Good Spring, Schuylkill […]
An undated generic post card view of two miners timbering a mine, Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
In October 1915, nine men who had been trapped for a week in a mine tunnel near Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, were rescued. The story was told in the Pine […]
An undated generic post card view of coal miners working 500 feet underground at Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this […]
An undated color photo post card aerial or birds-eye view of the new St. Nicholas Breaker, near Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. On the rear of the card is the following […]
Two examples of pro-coal ads appearing in the West Schuylkill Herald, Tower City, August 5, 1949, August 12, 1949. These promotions were meant to encourage local area residents to stock […]
An undated color photo post card view of the Old Steam “Lokie” at Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Tourists ride reconstructed mine cars through the area where mining was done years […]
MINER DIES AS RESULT FALL DOWN SLOPE An independent miner who was injured in a 60-foot fall down a slope at Bear Valley mining operation Thursday, September 20 [1962], died […]