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

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.

Justin Vellucci Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 5:55 a.m. | Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 5:55 a.m. Coal mining ... at the time. “Pennsylvania has a long history of surface and underground mining, and its effects ...

Centralia, Pennsylvania, is a name that evokes intrigue, mystery, and a sense of eerie desolation. Known as the "real Silent ...

(AP) - A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the night ...

A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of ... the team from Western Pennsylvania hopes to capture the 1300-foot descent into the mine along with its half ...