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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 835160" data-attributes="member: 10543">In the latter 1800s into the 1940s, anthracite coal mining was the most important industry in northeastern Pennsylvania.  It was the predominant residential heating fuel and also found wide use in industry until it was unseated by fuel oil and natural gas.  Although abandoned, dozens of large anthracite "breakers" (anthracite was also known as "hard coal", as it had to be broken like rock in processing) still stood into the 1980s and beyond.  A friend and I sought these out and took pictures of some.  All are gone today.  This was the Harry E. at Swoyersville, PA in September 1982.  [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome] [ATTACH=full]420854[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]420855[/ATTACH]</blockquote>