Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MINERSVILLE — Local photographer and cultural historian Scott Herring, also known as “The Last Anthracite Photographer,” hosted an ...

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 ...

Mining historian David Skoniecki describes the components of a carbide miner’s lamp during the Plymouth Historical Society presentation ‘The Tools that Kept the Miners Working’ at the First ...

Photographed in 1972, the coal miners pictured worked in Wanamie, Newport Township, one of the last underground coal mines operating in the 1970s in Wyoming Valley. WILKES-BARRE — Professor Bob ...

A bulldozer pushes mine cars toward the river in an attempt to dam the breach at the Knox Mine. (LUKASIK STUDIO ARCHIVES) Deacon Francis Bradigan anoints the Knox Mine Disaster memorial during a past ...

A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month takes place in January and a variety of programs will be featured in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Plymouth, Pittston, Ashley, Hazleton, Hazle Twp., ...

The 16th Coal Miners Heritage Festival & Picnic will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday on the grounds of the No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum in Lansford, Carbon County. The Coal Miners Heritage Festival ...

We carved our present out of coal’s past. Regardless of what the county and region thrive on now, or how we forge the future, Anthracite coal forever sits at the heart of how we became who we are. It ...

High above Pottsville, a towering statue of Henry Clay gazes over the historic Philadelphia Reading Coal and Iron Company building, now the Reading Anthracite Company office and the surrounding coal ...