Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour Scranton Pa
The Lackawanna Coal Mine was opened by Continental Coal Company in 1903. Lackawanna County, including Scranton, is part of the Northern Field of the coal region of Pennsylvania and many Europeans immigrated to the area to work in the mines.
The mine was closed in 1966 and lay abandoned until 1978 when the mine was converted to a museum, supported by $2.5 million in federal money. Restoration included removal of debris, laying track for a mine car to carry visitors into the mine, installation of electricity for lights, and reinforcing of the shafts with steel buttresses. The museum opened in 1985.
In 1987, Lackawanna County received a $300,000 state grant to build a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) museum building to house exhibits and artifacts. The addition is called the Shifting Shanty, a name used to describe the area where miners showered after a shift.
Adjacent to the mine tour is the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum with exhibits on Northeastern Pennsylvania's mining and industrial history. The museum is run by Lackawanna County.
The purpose of the mine is to give visitors a feeling for what it was like to work in an underground mine. The tours are led by former miners, or children of miners.
Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope, about 250 ft (76 m) below ground, into the Clark Vein of coal. The tour proceeds, on foot, through several twisting veins of the abandoned mine. During the tour, the tour guides describe various aspects of the anthracite mining industry in Pennsylvania including the file of the fire boss, air doors and their role in ventilation, door boys or nippers, second means of exit from the mine, and the company store. The temperatures within the mine are around a constant of 50–54 °F (10–12 °C).
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Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour (22JUL2015)
The tour of the Lackawanna anthracite coal mine starts with a winched rail car descent down a steep grade to 300 feet below the surface. Our guide (a 25 year veteran miner) shared his knowledge and experiences on the half mile walking tour through different chambers in the mine.
Lackawanna Coal mine slope 190 Scranton PA down into the mine
Visited the 190 and spent some time in the mine, lighting is not the best, or sound, very difficult to see down there, very damp with all the recent rain, October 15 2018 A lot of fun, but wouldn't want to stay down there.
RV'ing at the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour near Scranton PA by Ashley Gracile Distant Roads
Ashley Gracile descended slowly into the earth in a mine car as that entered the old Slope #190 and watched the sky slowly disappear.
You will too and soon you've reached the foot. Then explore 300 feet beneath the earth through an anthracite coal mine originally opened in 1860.
Accompany a miner in the winding underground gangways and rock tunnel past three different veins of hard coal.
The Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour is open from April 1 through November 30 and is closed on Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving Day.
The box office opens at 10:00 AM and tours are scheduled on demand, usually 28 to a car. While waiting for your tour you can watch the introductory video about mining in the theater that is located in the interpretive center where the tickets for the tour are sold. Toll free 1-800-238-7245. Just ask at the box office for the next available tour. The last tour leaves between 3:00 and 3:30 and you must arrive no later than 3:00 to be scheduled for the final tour of the day.
RD 1 Bald Mountain Rd., McDade Park Scranton, PA 18504
Local: 570-963-6463 1-800-238-7245 visitpa.com
Lackawanna Coal Mine tour
A visit to the Lackawanna Coal Mine tour at McDade Park in Scranton, PA on May 17th, 2008. The tour was the first of three mine tours taken that day through the Underground Miners and Chris Murley. Thanks to Chris and his cohort Banks Ries!! All footage, Copyright 2008. Email: snapabraham@sbcglobal.net
The Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, PA - Guided Mini-Tour
Our charismatic and very knowledgeable tour guide, Slats Grobnick, Keystone College class of '72, takes us on an incredible journey through some of Pennsylvania's rich coal mining history. This mini-tour is part of a one hour full tour offered to the public at the Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton, PA.
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Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.It is the county seat of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building.With a population of 76,089, it is the largest city in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 570,000,.Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale.
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