PHOTO GALLERY: The regions north of the Lehigh Valley were coal country in the 1800s and 1900s. The mountains provided anthracite or “hard coal.” Here are photos of coal mining from The ...

women and children who helped mine the anthracite coal that powered America’s industrial growth,” the museum’s operator, the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, said in a news release.

I t’s been a long time since King Coal’s reign over the Lehigh Valley was undisputed ... Coupled with the dramatic photos of the coal fields by 19th century Pottsville photographer George ...

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