Synopsis: On October 2, 1979, Marilyn McCusker was killed working inside a deep coal mine in central Pennsylvania. It had taken her two years and a sex discrimination suit in federal court to get her job as a coal miner. This award-winning film has been called “the best documentary ever...
These are reserved for the coalfields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and perhaps the mining ghost towns of the American West. It is not surprising then that the discovery of substantial veins of copper in Orange County was to have dramatic impacts on not only the landscape of ...
From the Miners' Doublehouse: Archeology and Landscape in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town Metheny opens her book with a discussion of the history of company towns in the U.S. from the beginnings of industrialization in the early nineteenth century through the rise of welfare capitalism at the ...
Many mines have short economic life spans, yet their post-closureimpact can endure for generations. The closed facilities may continue to pollute local water supplies, release airborne toxins, and leave slag piles, pits and dumps that contaminate the soil and deface the landscape. Ghost towns are...
In the backcountry, the mining towns of Schefferville, Wabush, Labrador and Gagnon bear witness of the conceptions that presided to their elaboration.doi:10.7202/020425arBussières, PaulCahiers de géographie de Québec... P Bussières - 《Cahiers De Géographie Du Québec》 被引量: 2发表: ...
In several of these places, unemployment is among the highest in the country, which leads to an outward migration, turning numerous regions into ghost towns. When it comes to bridging this gap of job insecurity and creating opportunities in disadvantaged regions, President Biden has made a promise...
The next year, 1897, a contingent of sheriff's deputies fired upon an unarmed procession of striking mine workers who were marching between the patch towns of Harwood and Lattimer in Luzerne County. The deputies killed nineteen and wounded thirty-six people in what became known as the ...
Lancaster, Pennsylvania The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) operates the landfill and transfer stations in the county. The Frey Farm landfill, located in Manor Township, was opened for waste disposal in September 1988. ...
In addition, 600 workers had died in mining accidents in the Pennsylvania mines from 1863 to 1870. As labor organized, the government called in the army to crush strikes in 1864. Strike leaders were arrested, and martial law was declared in the Pennsylvania coal towns. The miners responded ...
this large format book provides the most complete coverage of mining in the Black Hills at the turn of the century. Full of 206 pages of photos of mines, mining men, buildings, towns, and other area development, the book includes over 750 original photographs. All the area mining companies...