Author: Poliniak, Louis,
Title: When Coal Was King: mining Pennsylvania's anthracite.
Description: Levanon, PA, Applied Arts Publishers, (1993). 10th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Greenback Colliery was named after a political party that came into being after the Civil War & built between 1870-1878. life. Early coal mining in picture and story in the land of the Mollie Maguires. There was constant labor trouble with members of the "Mollie Maguires". The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company purchased the mining firm in 1871. An underground fire on August 19, 1884 caused the death of 7 men and a 15 year old door boy lost his life below the surface, before fire was flooded with water from Shamokin Creek. The colliery was abandoned in 1886.

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