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Outside of the mine, the breaker was the linchpin of the coal operation, said John Fielding, a curator with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Without the breaker, anthracite coal ...

ECKLEY — The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) on Wednesday announced that Eckley Miners’ Village — a landmark patch town preserving the legacy of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite mining ...

When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it was capable ...