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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

119 Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County), Scranton — 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike — In May 1902, 150,000 mineworkers struck for six months for union recognition, higher wages, shorter hours, and other demands. The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, held hearings at the Lackawanna County . . .

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Ukraine declares emergency situation on electricity market due to coal ...

Nasalik said earlier this week the reserves of anthracite coal in Ukraine totaled 842,000 tons at the moment while the average daily consumption of the fuel stood at 30,000 tons.

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Lithuanian Bacon Buns - A Coalcracker in the Kitchen

The Southern Coal region of Northeast Pennsylvania is known as "Little Lithuania". Anthracite and the industry surrounding it lured many Lithuanians in during the 1860s to 1910s era. Shenandoah (Pennsylvania) earned itself the nickname, "the Vilnius of North America" and was a much larger town during the Anthracite heyday than it is now.

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Populism, American Style - Ethics & Public Policy Center

Populism, American Style. Published June 21, 2010. National Affairs. By Henry Olsen. On February 19, 2009, business journalist Rick Santelli inadvertently helped launch a populist movement. Appearing on the cable network CNBC from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Santelli spoke of rising public anger about the expensive taxpayer ...

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Anthracite Music: An Interview with Jay Smar | Anthracite Unite

August 1, 2017 · by Anthracite Unite · in Immigration, Lists, Uncategorized · 1 Comment. We interviewed Jay Smar, an accomplished local musician, to learn more about the folk music of the Anthracite Coal Region. Smar has toured Scotland twice, recorded music for the BBC Documentary "The Welch in America," and has been recognized by ...

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After the Boom · CNEWA

Northeastern Pennsylvania at one time contained three-quarters of the world's anthracite deposits. The 18th-century discovery of the hard coal - formed over 250 million years ago - later sparked a mining frenzy that would fuel the industrialization of the United States, spur revolutions in technology and create boom towns across the region.

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Development of ethnonational identity among Rusyn immigrants

The five Rusyn communities of northeastern Pennsylvania examined in this paper were chosen because they were settled at approximately the same time, the main local occupation - coal mining - was the same, the native village backgrounds of the settlers are similar (primarily Lemko with a Prešov Region minority, along with a small number of Galician Ukrainians and other East Slavs), and the ...

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Ukrainian church in Centralia designated as pilgrimage site

He also noted how this coal region parish fostered four priestly vocations and three sisters to the religious life. The parish was founded Aug. 15, 1911, with the first services in the church in 1912.

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Donets Basin - Encyclopedia of Ukraine

The mining of coal (both anthracite and bituminous coal) began to decline in Ukraine from a peak of 206.3 million t in 1976 to 188.2 million t in 1980, and 155.5 million t in 1990, of which 80.5 million t (51.8 percent) was mined in Donetsk oblast and 51.6 million t (33.2 percent) in Luhansk oblast. Coal mining declined steeply in Ukraine after ...

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Trump Bringing Familiar Politics of Division to Pennsylvania Coal Country

Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor at John Jay College, City University of New York and author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He is also a Hazleton native and co-founder of Anthracite Unite. We've had enough. The 1% own and operate the corporate media.

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Development of ethnonational identity among Rusyn immigrants

As Interstate 81 winds its way north through the heart of the anthracite coal-mining region past such communities as Minersville, Mount Carmel, Frackville, Shenandoah, Mahanoy City, McAdoo, Nanticoke, and Wilkes-Barre, distinctive onion-domed churches dot the landscape.

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Eastern European Immigrants in the Mines — Red Patch Gallery

Beginning in the 1870's, newcomers arrived from Eastern Europe. Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, Rusyns and Ukrainians (Ruthenians) settled in the villages of Schuylkill County and took their place among the laborers in the coal mines. To find out more about the lives of Ukrainian Lemkos in the Minersville area, click below.

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2011 Rally-Bloomsburg,Pa. - Page 4 - BMW Motorcycle Owners of America

I will agree Bloomsburg is not considered Pa. Dutch however there are German surnames among the population since the 1700s. The Germans ( Moravians) of this region first settled in Easton and Allentown area, they performed missionary work among the Native Americans along the rivers till Sullivan's March occurred, or they worked on the Delaware, Leigh, and Pa canal to building railroads.

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Four Reasons to Keep an Eye on North Korea | Capitalist Exploits

By: Kevin Virgil Last week I wrote about the possibilities of increasing change in North Korea, and its importance in the complex Northeast Asian region, which is quickly becoming a fault line between the world's three leading powers. I have been writing for a couple of years now and it is safe to say that this post has generated stronger reactions than anything I've done previously ...

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Philadelphia - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

The site was occupied by the Delaware Indians before William Penn founded the city in 1682. It was the capital of Pennsylvania 1683-1799 and the capital of the U.S. between 1790 and 1800. It played a prominent role in opposing British policies and was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitutional Convention.

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Artwork by collection — Red Patch Gallery

20th century art and memorabilia from the anthracite region of Northeast Pennsylvania. Your Custom Text Here. Red Patch Gallery. Home; ... St. Demetrius Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, Carteret, N.J. 1962. Pottsville Public Library. Milking Time 1934. Coal Miners 1935. His Grandmother ca 1935. Coal Bootlegger 1934. Bootlegger's Wife and Son1939 ...

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Slovenian Marriages - Forest City News, Pennsylvania | FEEFHS

The towns population swelled to 2319 in 1890, to 4279 in 1900, and to 5749 in 1910. The increase was almost completely accounted for by immigrants from Europe who were attracted to the area to move into the newly opened anthracite mines. By 1920, the local population reached a high of 6004.

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Anthracite - Find link

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Northumberland County and is part of the Coal Region comprising six counties. Anthracite coal was discovered in the early 1800's. The popu-lation grew rapidly especially following the Civil War with the expansion of the coal mining and railroad industries. Polish, Irish, Italian, German, and Russian immigrants formed a large portion of this ...

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Hazleton Area Towns and History - PAGenWeb

Anthracite coal, the black rock that would fuel an industrial revolution, brought prospectors, first to Beaver Meadows and later to Hazleton. By the 1830's an industry had been born. Its offspring would bear names like Weatherly, Freeland, and Drifton.

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Restoring Pennsylvanian grave of 19th-century Donegal migrant

Nestled on a picturesque plateau in the northeast of the US state of Pennsylvania, Hazleton is a city of some 25,000 souls. ... "I work in the economic development sector in the anthracite coal ...

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Coal Production - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Immigration of Europeans brought the Industrial Revolution to North America and increased commercialization of coal for use in smelting and space heating in the northeast United States. Coal mining of bituminous and anthracite coals in the central Appalachian Basin occurred in the early 1800 with production of both to as much as 2721 mt ...

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'Everyone is in a state of shock': Local Ukrainians take action as ...

About 240,000 settled in the U.S. eastern farmlands and in anthracite coal-mining towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. As many as 250,000 more Ukrainians arrived in the early 1900s, helping create the new, industrial world through jobs at steel, glass, and rail manufacturers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Detroit.

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Introduction - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

From the 1880s through 1914 eastern and southern European immigrants were recruited to work in the mines and other industries of the Anthracite Region. Today the area retains a strong multiethnic identity, and it supports an array of ethnic organizations, including the national offices of several fraternal benefit societies.

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Welsh Americans - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core

In the 19th century thousands of Welsh coal miners emigrated to the anthracite and bituminous mines of Pennsylvania, many becoming mine managers and executives. The miners brought organizational skills, exemplified in the United Mine Workers labor union, and its most famous leader John L. Lewis, who was born in a Welsh settlement in Iowa.

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One of The Most Enduring Ethnic Entertainments Has Fallen on Modern ...

The Liederkrantz in downtown Allentown has gone one step further, actually substituting rock 'n' roll. But perhaps most eye-opening is the fact that in the entire city of Bethlehem, an area once ...

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A Long-Simmering Revolt | National Review

Not to mention the fact that the number of coal-mining jobs in Luzerne County has been declining since 1914.Anthracite — the kind of coal found in abundance in the county — long ago stopped ...

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Learning about Susan (Bitto) Bertothy (1884-1984): My Sister ... - Blogger

During the course of Hungarian history, the area became a focal point of resistance to the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg dynasty, and even the Catholic church. Today, the region is known as the "Ruhr Valley of Hungary." During the Communist era it was heavily industrialized and that revolution was led by the mining of brown coal.[2]

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Full text of "South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 ...

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Ancestry, Identity, and What It Means to Be American, Part 1

The largest of these groups are the Poles, Ukrainians, and Russian Jews, but a fairly large number of ethnic Germans also emigrated from Russia to the United States. In addition, about two-thirds of the Russian immigration to the U.S. occurred over the two decades from 1890 to 1910.

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Joe Biden's Polish Joke - Chronicles

If the many descendants of Eastern European immigrants who live in the critical electoral battleground stretching from the old anthracite coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania to the Mesabi Range of Minnesota end up taking the same dim view of Joe Biden that so many Slavic-Americans who know him best have, the "really smart people" may ...

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Coal Dust on Your Feet: The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great economic and historic importance.

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The Draft National Electricity Development Planning For 2021 ... - Mondaq

The ability to produce domestic anthracite coal for supply to the Northeastern region is only approximately 35 million tons or 88% of the total demand, so coal must be imported and mixed to meet consumption request.

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Blast furnace - Unionpedia, the concept map

Anthracite iron or Anthracite 'Pig Iron' is the substance created by the smelting together of anthracite coal and iron ore, that is using Anthracite coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron ores — and was an important historic advance in the late-1830s enabling great acceleration the industrial revolution in Europe and North America. New!!:

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The Transformative Beauty of Anthracite | The Current

In some regions, Anthracite production still continues, contributing up to 1% of the gross state product. It is estimated that over the past 200 years approximately 10 billion tons of coal had been dug up from northeastern parts of Pennsylvania, one quarter of all the coal ever mined in the United States.

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Coal - Find link

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Eckley Miners' Village - Wikipedia

71000710 [1] Added to NRHP. October 26, 1971. Eckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located near Hazleton, Luzerne County, in the United States. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission .

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Shenandoah and southern Coal Region: Lithuanian heritage | Global True ...

The surrounding countryside has numerous closed derelict closed coal (anthracite) mines which lured all those Lithuanians in during the 1860s-1910s era. The towns are notable for their straight streets and high density of buildings. They were built that way to use up less of the valuable mining land.

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Joe Biden's Polish Joke - Intellectual Takeout

If the many descendants of Eastern European immigrants who live in the critical electoral battleground stretching from the old anthracite coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania to the Mesabi Range of Minnesota end up taking the same dim view of Joe Biden that so many Slavic-Americans who know him best have, the "really smart people" may ...

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Hidden History: Coal Mining in NEPA - PAhomepage

The anthracite region of Pennsylvania is known for *fueling* the industrial revolution. But deep within the the rich coal mining history in this area - a few nuggets of untold history. "Most ...

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