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, […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An undated post card view of the shaft at the Susquehanna Colliery, Bear Gap, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The two tall chimneys are for the electrical power plant at this […]