Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

Each January, Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, regional mines still provide jobs. The Department of Environmental ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour in Scranton. "It was ...

Sep. 1—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 ...

January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a tradition partly rooted in annual ...

Jessup resident Constance Denchy descends from four generations of anthracite miners. Denchy honors this history by using ...

Ernie Lucas walks past a coal buggy in the D & D anthracite coal mine, July 19, 2003, in Good Spring, Pa. This passage is 750 feet below the surface. A dwindling number of independent anthracite coal ...

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