Carbon County: Stone Coal in the Switzerland of America
Posted by Michael Knies on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Carbon County: Stone Coal in the Switzerland of America Carbon, the primary component of anthracite coal, is also a county in eastern Pennsylvania – for the same reason. The value of anthracite to the burgeoning industrial revolution of the mid-nineteenth century created in 1843 a new county from the northern fringes of the once-immense Northampton County. Beginning in the nineteenth century, an entire county of coal was carved and moved to...read more
