The furnaces, which produced pig iron, exemplified the technology of the day through their use of anthracite coal and hot blast for smelting iron ore, a process that dominated the iron industry before the widespread use of coke as a fuel.

Nesquehoning was established as a result of the anthracite coal mining industry.

The land area that became Carbondale was developed by William and Maurice Wurts, the founders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, during the rise of the anthracite coal mining industry in the early 19th century.

Scranton forged ahead as the center of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry.

Historically, manufacturing was Catasauqua's principal industry, and, in 1839, it was the location of the first manufactured anthracite iron in the nation.

In 1840, the anthracite iron industry was founded in what is now known as Catasauqua, originally Biery's Port, making it a birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

The anthracite and railroad industry attracted thousands of immigrants, making Pittston a true melting pot with once-distinct ethnic and class neighborhoods.

The anthracite coal mining industry, and its extensive use of child labor in the early part of the twentieth century, was one of the industries targeted by the National Child Labor Committee and its hired photographer, Lewis Hine.

Because of the collapse of the anthracite coal industry, the town's population, 15, 507 in 1940, would decline to 5, 951 by the year 2010.

Unlike the hardscrabble coal towns around it, West Pittston was generally a quiet town and home to the white-collar workers of the anthracite coal industry.

Early in the twentieth century, anthracite coal mining was the chief industry of the region, although Frackville remained a predominantly residential community.

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which has its roots in the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, the remnants of which were acquired in the late 20th century by the Reading Anthracite Company, acquired extentive coal lands and would become one of the most notable of the coal companies operating in Pennsylvania until the demise of the anthracite industry after World War II.

The community was hard hit by the decline of the anthracite coal industry after World War II and heavy emigration by coal miners occurred in order to find work elsewhere.

The collapse of the anthracite coal industry in the early 1960s, the Penn Central merger, and Hurricane Diane all lead to the railroad's demise.

Nearby, at the corner of Franklin and Jackson Streets, the college's Chapel of " Christ the King " houses a 4, 200-pound anthracite altar ( symbolizing the relationship between the coal industry and the college ).

It greatly facilitated the transportation of anthracite coal from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley to northern New Jersey's growing iron industry and other developing industries in New Jersey and the New York City area.

The result was an easy method to produce anthracite iron, which revolutionized industry in the Swansea Valley.

The anthracite mining industry loomed over much of the region until its decline in the 1950s.

The town's first burst of growth had been fueled by the construction of the Lehigh Canal, by the boom in anthracite coal, and by the growth of an extensive local anthracite iron industry.

The core of the Reading's business, however, remained anthracite hauling, and as president Gowen sought to stabilize this core by obtaining control over both ends of the industry that the railroad connected: anthracite production and marketing.

In 1874, a former Gowen friend turned enemy by Gowen's organization of the anthracite industry, accused Gowen in print of dishonest and misleading financial representations in the Reading's annual report and its prospectuses.

The first person to employ the hot blast technique to anthracite smelting was Dr. Frederick W. Gesenhainer, who filed for a patent on the process in 1831 and received it in 1833.

Crane filed for a British patent on smelting iron with anthracite and hot blast in 1836, and received it in 1837.

Booming growth occurred during the Civil War years caused by the development and opening of several anthracite coal mines.

The Ammanford Anthracite Strike was a riot at Ammanford in 1925 during a strike by anthracite miners who took control of the town by force and violence for 10 days.

Irish miners in this organization employed the tactics of intimidation and violence used against Irish landlords during the " Land Wars " yet again in violent confrontations against the anthracite, or hard coal mining companies in the 19th century.

Baughman, Guiteau and Company used an old furnace near Mauch Chunk to produce some anthracite iron during late 1837.

Although opened in 1831, the Morris Canal's traffic volume, which was primarily anthracite coal from Pennsylvania, peaked during the late 1860s, shortly after end of the American Civil War.

He asks Tauber to keep the formula secret for another 10 years ( during which time the cartel can acquire more coal fields, and the price of oil will continue to increase ) in exchange for a 30 % share of his anthracite ( i. e. coal ) holdings.

Second, from 1850 to the outbreak of the First World War, the South Wales Coalfield was developed to supply steam coal and anthracite.

Until the decline in anthracite loadings in the Coal Region after World War II, it was one of the most prosperous corporations in the United States.

During World War I, anthracite was needed for the war effort and its use on railroads was prohibited, thus ending the career of Phoebe Snow.

In the early 20th century, prior to World War II, clean coal ( also called " smokeless coal ") referred to anthracite and high-grade bituminous coal, used for cooking and home heating.

Many historians believe the " Mollies " were present in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania in the United States between the time of the American Civil War until a series of sensational arrests and trials from 1876 − 78.

Settlement in the region predates the American Revolution, the discovery of the anthracite coal for which it is named occurred in 1762, and the first mine was established in 1775 near Pittston, PA. Population rapidly grew in the period following the American Civil War, with the expansion of the mining and railroad industries.

He believed that the Schuylkill Valley — which from colonial times until the Civil War had been the center of American iron-making — would, because of the importance of anthracite iron, continue to hold that preeminent position indefinitely.

In 1867, Hill entered the coal business, and by 1879 it had expanded five times over, giving Hill a local monopoly in the anthracite coal business.

* Type 332: Fitted for power by anthracite coal

Port Reading was built in the late 19th century by the Reading Railroad of Pennsylvania to serve their shipping needs, especially coal from the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields.

* 1859: the first anthracite coal breaker in America, the Racket Brook Breaker, was erected by the D & H, adjacent to the company's coal and rail operations in the vicinity of the Artesian Well.

Shortly after these were opened, immigrants from Europe were lured to the area by the work available in the booming anthracite coal fields.

Pottsville's anthracite coal history began in 1790 when it was discovered by hunter Necho Allen.

) Later that year, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ( a company set up by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad to administer their anthracite properties ) came into possession of the Brookside through its purchase of the Munson and Williams lands.

In late colonial times, the river became an increasingly important transportation corridor with the discovery of anthracite coal by Necho Allen in its upper reaches in the mountains.

Development of many mines, and hence small settlements into villages and towns in the area, was brought about by a combination of a rich deposits of anthracite in the western South Wales coalfield, as well as the construction of the Neath and Brecon Railway from 1862.

The book exposes tactics used by industrialists against workers and trade unionists in the anthracite coal region, including the use of inflammatory terms and epithets such as " communist " and " Molly Maguire " used to depict union leaders and strikers as violent and dangerous.

Nearly a century passed before a route for the canal was surveyed by David Rittenhouse and William Smith between 1762 and 1770, the first canal ever surveyed in the U. S. Spurred by the 1791 discovery of anthracite in the upper Susquehanna Valley, the Pennsylvania General Assembly chartered two companies to undertake the project: the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal Company and the Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.

The Lackawanna route was severely affected by the decline of anthracite and cement traffic from Pennsylvania by the 1940's.

At the time, anthracite was transported by boat down the Lehigh River ; the railroad was meant to be faster transportation.