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Pennsylvania
Wehrum coal company town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, mining tools, carbide lamp parts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1901-1934 non-union coal company town
Company town of the Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company with 250 houses, a bank, jail, hotel, company store, school and two churches laid out on Manhattan-style street names. Explosions killed four miners in 1904 and twenty-one in 1909; Bethlehem Mines closed the mines in 1929 and the last residents left in 1934.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old mine openings, dam ruins on cliffs
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