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 ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Museums, educational institutions, and other organizations observe Anthracite Mining Heritage Month each January in Lackawanna County. Earlier Sunday afternoon, experts gathered at ...

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 ...

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 population.