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2 unusual facts about Coal Region


Alexander J. Foley

At a young age he decided that he was not going to work the coal mines as his father had done.

Lizzie Arlington

Arlington came from the Pennsylvania Coal Region, where she accustomed to play baseball with her father and brothers.



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Coaldale Big Green

In 1924 James Gildea set up a meeting at the town hall in Coaldale to establish the league made up of the coal region teams.

Joseph Lapsley Wilson

Following the war, he became secretary of the Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company, a division of the Reading Railroad, which transported anthracite from Northeastern Pennsylvania's coal region.

Mount Savage Locomotive Works

The C&P shops also provided repair services to its rivals in the Georges Creek coal region.