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HAER PA,40-ECK,1- (sheet 1 of 5) - Council Ridge Colliery, Eckley, Luzerne County, PA
Title
HAER PA,40-ECK,1- (sheet 1 of 5) - Council Ridge Colliery, Eckley, Luzerne County, PA
Description
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter; Owens, Alivia, delineator; McClung, Kevin, delineator; Bonenberger, Danny, delineator; Morris, Jeremy, delineator; Boxley, Paul, delineator
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Luzerne County; Eckley
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,40-ECK,1- (sheet 1 of 5)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Coal mining methods used in the U.S. during the 1854-1964 period varied according to geography, dates of operation, geologic conditions, the availability of capital and mining machinery, the state of technical knowledge, and custom. Geological conditions, such as the height and pitch of the coal seam, depth and nature of cover, and character of the roof and floor, played a decisive role in determining mining methods at the Council Ridge anthracite colliery in Pennsylvania, which operated from 1854-1964, and the Kay Moor No. 1 bituminous mine in West Virginia, which operated from 1901-1962...
  • Survey number: HAER PA-569
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3805.sheet.00001a
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Object location40° 59′ 35.99″ N, 75° 51′ 46.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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