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 ...

It was the work of George Luks, by that time a well-known American painter who considered the coal region his home. On Sept. 1 of that same year, a bitter strike began in the anthracite fields of ...

Mr. McConnell. the assumed inventor, claims that anthracite coal from the mines ot South Wales can be used in these engines, at a saving of one-half the cost of bituminous coke, and a complete ...

F. Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U. S. N., it appears that the Collin's steamers use anthracite on the voyage to Liverpool, and Welsh coal, also an anthracite, on the return voyage. The Welsh coal ...

and the history and culture of the Anthracite Coal Region.” Greater Pittston Historical Society President Julio Caprari, Pittston, stated, “We will always do a presentation in January to ...

A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of ... "They're in the bituminous region of the state, we're in the anthracite, but to have like-minded people sharing ...