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Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

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is seen attempting to organize a field trip for his office to the museum under the assumption that the elevator that takes visitors down into the mine is a ride analogous to a roller-coaster drop instead of the slow and prolonged descent into an industrial coal mining facility that it actually was.
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funding. Restoration included the removal of debris, the laying of track to enable a mine car to carry visitors into the mine, the installation of electricity for lights, and the reinforcement of the mine's shafts with steel buttresses to improve safety prior to the museum's opening in 1985.
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In 1987, Lackawanna County received a $ 300,000 state grant to build a 2,500-square-foot (230 m) museum building to house exhibits and artifacts. The addition is called the Shifting Shanty, a name used to describe the area where miners showered after a shift.
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Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope, about 250 ft (76 m) below ground, into the Clark Vein of coal. The tour proceeds, on foot, through several twisting veins of the abandoned mine.
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After operating for more than half a century, this mine was closed in 1966 and lay abandoned until 1978. That year, the mine was converted to a museum, supported by $ 2.5 million in
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The purpose of the mine is to give visitors a feeling for what it was like to work in an underground mine. The tours are led by former miners, or children of miners.
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In 2018 and 2019, Lackawanna Coal Mine is featured in seasons 3 and 4 of the television adaptation of
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In 1903, the Continental Coal Company opened the Lackawanna Coal Mine.
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During the tour, the tour guides describe various aspects of the
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mining industry in Pennsylvania including the file of the
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Scranton, Pennsylvania
McDade Park
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
41°25′00″N 75°42′55″W / 41.416670°N 75.715215°W / 41.416670; -75.715215
Mining
industrial history
coalminetournepa.com
museum
coal mine
McDade Park
Scranton
Pennsylvania

Mantrip
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Lackawanna County
Coal Region
Pennsylvania
U.S. federal government
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum
Northeastern Pennsylvania

anthracite
fire boss
company store
The Man in the High Castle
parallel worlds
season one

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