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Coal Region of Pennsylvania

A collection of nostalgia and regionalisms from the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania.

Penn State University Libraries - Railroads in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) created the Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project in 2010 to develop and share information about Pennsylvania’s agricultural history and the places that reflect that history.

Pennsylvania State Archives - Coal Miner Records

The Department of Mines was created in 1903 to succeed the Bureau of Mines, which had been established in the Department of Internal Affairs in 1897.

The Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania coal mines listings of known mines and other information about the mines and some links have miners that worked in each mine.
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