The anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, ...

Getting this new fuel out of the ground was one thing, but getting anthracite coal to market in Philadelphia was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals and sections of the ...

Rachel Leon rides the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which aided in the region's industrialization in the 19th and ...

For several years, a group of historians has worked to preserve the history of the anthracite coal region by creating informational boards and signs. The Anthracite Cultural Board, composed of 16 ...

When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it was capable ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...