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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List of Best Things to do in Scranton, Pennsylvania (PA)
Steamtown National Historic Site
The Electric City Trolley Station and Museum
Nay Aug Park
Scranton Lake Walking Path
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
Montage Mountain
Lackawanna River Heritage Trail
Everhart Museum
University of Scranton
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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The Iron Furnaces are located in downtown Scranton near Steamtown National Historic Site. In this video i give you a look around at some of the things you can see if you visit this interesting place. enjoy the video
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The Scranton Iron Furnaces is a historic site that preserves the heritage of iron making in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania and is located in Scranton, near the Steamtown National Historic Site. It protects the remains of four stone blast furnaces which were built between 1848 and 1857. Iron production on the site was started by Scranton, Grant & Company in 1840. Later, the furnaces were operated by the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company. In 1847, iron rails for the Erie Railroad were made at the site. In 1865, Scranton, Grant & Company had the largest iron production capacity in the United States. In 1875, steel production started at the site. In 1880, the furnaces produced 125,000 tons of pig iron, one of the main uses of which was in the making of t-rails. The plant was closed in 1902, when production was shifted to Lackawanna, New York.
The site has been managed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission since 1971 and is part of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum complex. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, as the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company Furnace
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Top 14. Tourist Attractions & Things to Do in Scranton, Pennsylvania: Steamtown National Historic Site, Nay Aug Park, Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, Montage Mountain, Houdini Museum, Scranton Cultural Center, Everhart Museum, Historic Scranton Iron Furnaces, Lackawanna River Heritage Trail, Lackawanna County Courthouse Square, Scranton Electric Building, St. Peter's Cathedral, St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church, St. Stanislaus Historical Catholic Cathedral
WVIA Member Thank You - Lackawanna Coal Mine and Anthracite Heritage Museum 2014
WVIA Member Thank You - Lackawanna Coal Mine and Anthracite Heritage Museum 2014
Thank you to our members who came out to the WVIA Days at the Lackawanna Coal Mine and Anthracite Heritage Museum and made it so much fun! And thank you to the coal mine and museum staff who welcomed our Member Family – we can’t wait until next year!
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Welcome to The Four Points by Sheraton Scranton Pennsylvania
Welcome to the Multi Million Dollar Newly renovated Four Points by Sheraton Scranton. Located just minutes from the area's major attractions, including the University of Scranton, Marywood University, Steamtown National Historic site, Lackawanna Coal Mine, and the Harry Houdini Museum. Enjoy fast & free WiFi, a Best Brew® at Electric Grill, complimentary bottled water, free on site parking and more during your stay. Plus we are pet friendly.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania | Wikipedia audio article
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Scranton, Pennsylvania
00:01:58 1 History
00:02:06 1.1 Pre-industrial (1776–1845)
00:03:26 1.2 Arrival of industry (1846–1899)
00:09:43 1.3 Labor history
00:12:21 1.4 Growth, prosperity and consequences (1900–1945)
00:17:21 1.5 Post-World War II (1946–1984)
00:20:25 1.6 Stabilization and restoration (1985–)
00:22:56 2 Geography
00:24:05 2.1 Climate
00:26:06 2.2 Adjacent municipalities
00:26:15 3 Demographics
00:29:33 4 Public safety
00:29:42 4.1 Fire department
00:30:33 4.2 Police
00:31:19 5 Culture
00:31:27 5.1 Media
00:33:25 5.2 Sports
00:36:45 5.3 Landmarks and attractions
00:40:29 5.4 In popular culture
00:41:26 6 Transportation
00:43:19 6.1 Railroads
00:45:08 7 Education
00:45:17 7.1 Primary and secondary education
00:46:56 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:47:34 7.3 Libraries
00:48:03 8 Notable people
00:48:12 8.1 Government
00:48:20 8.2 Arts
00:48:28 8.3 Sports
00:48:37 8.4 Others
00:48:45 9 Sister cities
00:49:18 10 See also
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Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building. With a population of 77,291, 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, Nanticoke, Pittston, and Carbondale. Scranton was incorporated on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a city on April 23, 1866. It became a major industrial city, a center of mining and railroads, and attracted thousands of new immigrants. It was the site of the Scranton General Strike in 1877.
People in northern Luzerne County sought a new county in 1839 but the Wilkes-Barre area resisted losing its assets. Lackawanna County did not gain independent status until 1878. Under legislation allowing the issue to be voted by residents of the proposed territory, voters favored the new county by a proportion of 6 to 1, with Scranton residents providing the major support. The city was designated as the county seat when Lackawanna County was established in 1878, and a judicial district was authorized in 1879.
The city took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City when electric lights were introduced in 1880 at Dickson Locomotive Works. Six years later, the nation's first streetcars powered exclusively by electricity began operating in the city. Rev. David Spencer, a local Baptist minister, later proclaimed Scranton as the Electric City.
Frank WYSO® An American Treasure
Frank Wysochansky was born April 22, 1915 in Monessen, Pennsylvania. For most of his life, he lived in Blakely, Pennsylvania, a small mining town outside of Scranton, where his father, a miner, died in the coal mines.
A self-taught artist, his unique style of painting using mixed media, captured the life of the coal miner as no other artist could. He acted as an historian of mining lore and practice. Each painting and sculpture is a record of the actual techniques and mining gear used during the heyday of the Anthracite miner before, during and after World War II. His art was enhanced by his thorough knowledge of the coal pits.
WYSO®, however, went beyond mere realism. His art is a mirror of the deeper realities in his miners: their camaraderie; their heroism; and the bedrock of their spirit - their profound stoicism. He has given us a striking symbol of the invincibility of the immigrant miner who helped build industrial America.
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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
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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.
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Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922) | An Introduction to Constitutional Law
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⚖️ Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922)
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➕ Holmes, Taft, McKenna, Day, Van Devanter, Pitney, McReynolds, Sutherland
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In Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon (1922), the Supreme Court attempted to draw the line between a permissible exercise of the police power and an unconstitutional regulatory taking.
Sometimes when coal is mined below the surface, the ground above the surface may collapse. As a result, structures above the surface may sink into the ground. This process is known as “subsidence.” In 1921, Pennsylvania enacted the Kohler Act. The law prohibited “the mining of anthracite coal in such way as to cause the subsidence of, among other things, any structure used as a human habitation.”
Mahon owned the surface rights to a piece of land.
Eckley Mining Village Anthracite Museum Own Your History
This was the Anthracite mining museum at the the abandoned Eckley mining museum. Again I stress that travel is the best education and from here on in I can't live it any other way .
Knowing and learning about the coal mines and its brave workers make me feel good almost as if their efforts did not come to pass in vain . Coal mining was an extrely difficult trade and the wife's job was almost just as hard .
When you see how it was I kinda feel ashamed of the way that we now live . It's a very soft time .
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