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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PCE_baltimore-mine-tunnel-disaster_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
Near here, on June 5, 1919, an explosion and fire in the Baltimore Mine Tunnel killed 92 and injured 60 when a fallen trolley wire contacted a cart carrying miners and kegs of blasting powder. One of the deadliest industrial disasters in Pa. histo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PCD_warriors-path_Shickshinny-PA.html
This Indian path intersects here. It led from the Great Island (Lock Haven) past the Indian town of Muncy, and then it followed the gap between these mountains to join the Great Warriors Path at Shickshinny. This path was used by Count Zinzendorf …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OP9_eckley-miners-village_Weatherly-PA.html
Eckley Miners' Village opened in 1854 as anthracite coal-mining became the predominant regional industry. Homes and a company store were first established. A colliery (breaker), additional houses, churches, hotel, school and outbuildings erected i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OP8_laborers-double-dwelling_Weatherly-PA.html
Homes of the unskilled—like all workers' homes in Eckley—are simple plank and frame with clapboard on the exterior walls and plaster on the inside. The front room served as a bedroom for parents and small children. The rear kitchen had…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OP6_wapwallopen_Wapwallopen-PA.html
Name of the former Indian town near the mouth of the Wapwallopen Creek. Indian trails connecting old Wyoming, the "Warrior's Path," and the Juniata and West Branch Susquehanna valleys intersected here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OP5_nescopeck_Berwick-PA.html
Name of Shawnee-Delaware Indian village located here. From Braddock's defeat in 1755 until Fort Augusta was built in 1756 it was a rallying point for Indians hostile to the English
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OOC_peter-f-rothermel_Nescopeck-PA.html
The noted painter was born in Nescopeck on July 8, 1812. His huge masterpiece, "Battle of Gettysburg," ordered by the State Legislature, is on display at the William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OO8_eckley-miners-village_Weatherly-PA.html
Founded in 1854 as Fillmore, it was renamed for noted mining engineer Eckley Coxe. It was built to house anthracite coal miners and their families, many European immigrants. Coal patch towns like Eckley were common in northeast Pa. in the late 180…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OO6_exploring-the-corridor_Weatherly-PA.html
Welcome to Delaware and Lehigh National and State Heritage Corridor, a collection of people, places and events that helped shape our great nation. Come journey through five Pennsylvania Counties bursting with heritage and brimming with outdoor adv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OO5_eckley-miners-village_Weatherly-PA.html
Anthracite coal was the heating and iron-making fuel of choice for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Almost all the anthracite came from northeastern Pennsylvania during that time. Eckley Miners' Village was first opened in 1854 while coa…