Artifacts on display include tools, household goods and more. The No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum is located in Lansford, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles west of Jim Thorpe. Admission is $12 for adults ...

Experts gathered at Catlin House Museum in Scranton for a panel discussion on the art behind anthracite on Sunday.

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

The coal car was donated in 1996 by William Swancer for the opening of the museum. Swancer had used the car in his mines in Clarence. “During the peak of Pennsylvania coal mining, tens of ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Grove City Historical Society is partnering with Lackawanna County to offer an immersive 360-degree mine tour for future ...

Kennedy Band, Contemporary and Jazz; John Stanky & The Coal Miners ... and the Everhart Museum, Public Program: Closing One of the Last Anthracite Deep Mines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 2021 ...

The Bradford County Historical Society and the LeRoy Heritage Museum recently partnered with author and historian, Malin D.

Jim Kristoff Jr.’s father was proud of the Tuscarora coal mine he founded and operated in the 1980s. So when James Kristoff Sr. passed away in October, his son decided to donate items from the ...

Kennedy Band, Contemporary and Jazz; John Stanky & The Coal Miners ... and the Everhart Museum, Public Program: Closing One of the Last Anthracite Deep Mines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 2021 ...

A group of dedicated volunteers has spent months digging up Waukee history. Pick axes, carbide helmet lamps and an authentic coal cart filled with actual Iowa coal all tell the story of the city ...