This 1872 Harper’s Weekly illustration shows miners still in their lamps and work clothes casting ballots outside a Pennsylvania colliery - voting before heading home from a shift underground in the Coal Region. Read the full story.
On April 14, 1872, volunteer firefighter and Civil War veteran Charles Ewing was racing to a fire on Sanderson Street in Pottsville when a tragic accident took his life before he reached the flames. His death stunned the town and drew a massive funeral procession. Read the Full Story.
These newspaper ads appeared in the Lykens Register in February 1872.
A Coal and Iron Police agent arrested a Hazleton resident under murky circumstances in September 1872
In a story published in 1872, a newspaper reporter documented extensive mining operations above Tower City, PA.