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The Gazette: Episode 1 – The War Begins

Posted on April 22, 2021April 21, 2021 by Jake Wynn

Pittston responds to the astonishing news that Southern militia forces fired upon a Federal garrison in April 1861. The Civil War had begun.

Posted in Pittston, The GazetteTagged 1861, 19th Century, Abraham Lincoln, Advertisement, American Civil War, Andrew Curtin, April, Charleston, Civil War, Dry Goods, Fort Sumter, Kingston Coal Company, Militia, Mine subsidence, Newspaper, Pennsylvania, Pittston Gazette, Podcast, South Carolina, Susquehanna River, Telegraph, The Gazette, Wyoming, Wyoming ValleyLeave a comment

Photographs from 1938 document the damage done to homes by mine subsidence in Schuylkill County

Posted on December 15, 2020December 14, 2020 by Jake Wynn

Sheldon Dick photographed damaged homes in Gilberton, Schuylkill County in 1938.

Posted in Coal Region, Schuylkill County, UncategorizedTagged 1938, anthracite, Coal Mining, Coal Region, Gilberton, Great Depression, Library of Congress, Mine subsidence, Mining, Photographs, Photography, Schuylkill County, Sheldon Dick, Subsidence1 Comment

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