The Black Land

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Words from The Black Land
 

“… the attention of the Commission was called to a few houses in which miners or mine workers dwelt which were not fit to be called habitations of men…”

Report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1903

 

“Coal was king, and all the people in the coal region were his worshippers.”

History of Schuylkill County, 1881


Ratio of coal produced per one life lost... 1 : 123,984 Tons

Reports of the Inspectors Of Mines, 1877

 


“The physical features of the anthracite country are wild; its aspect forbidding; its surface broken, sterile, and apparently irreclaimable.”

Statistics of Coal, R.C. Taylor

 
       

 

 

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