Bathhouse at the Cameron Colliery in Shamokin, PA | 1913

Bathhouse at the Cameron Colliery in Shamokin, Pennsylvania

The 1913 Cameron Colliery bathhouse in Shamokin, PA. Featured in The Colliery Engineer magazine, this 1912-built facility provided heated tubs and steam heat, modern conveniences like electric lighting, and lockers for 224 miners, with multilingual rule notices—an early example of worker welfare in the anthracite fields. Read the full story