Lackawanna County: The Last Shall Not Be Least

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lackawanna County: The Last Shall Not Be Least The history of the Key­stone State’s sixty­-seven counties is often quite similar to family histories. Its portrait is a rich composite of Native American legend and lore, early trans­portation, marine and mari­time heritage, industry and industrialists, pioneers, capitalists and the working classes, religious communes, inventors and the Industrial Revolution …. And the county, whose...
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Who Are These Anthracite People? Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Who Are These Anthracite People? Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum In the beginning were only the great transverse mountains, seen as ridge upon overlapping ridge stretching far into the horizon of northeastern Pennsylvania. Wide expanses of sweeping landscape contained virgin forests – thick, verdant, and heavy. Deep valleys formed by resplendent rivers – on the east, the Delaware; to the west, the Susquehanna; and northward, the Lackawanna where...
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Lost and Found

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found Lost At one time a subsidiary owned by the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company, the Hudson Coal Company employed ten thousand men at its fourteen mines and six breakers – structures of several stories in which anthracite was broken, sized, screened, and cleaned before being shipped to market – in northeastern Pennsylvania. Three-quarters of these employees worked underground. The...
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