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Eckley Miners' Village : Pennsylvania trail of history guide / text by Perry Blatz ; photographs by Craig A. Benner.
Van Pelt Library F159.E174 B57 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blatz, Perry K.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania trail of history guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eckley Miners' Village (Eckley, Pa.)--Guidebooks.
- Eckley Miners' Village (Eckley, Pa.).
- Coal mines and mining.
- History.
- Coal miners.
- Mining camps.
- Pennsylvania--Eckley.
- Eckley (Pa.)--Guidebooks.
- Eckley (Pa.).
- Eckley Miners' Village (Eckley, Pa.)--History.
- Eckley (Pa.)--History.
- Mining camps--Pennsylvania--Eckley--History.
- Coal miners--Pennsylvania--Eckley--History.
- Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Eckley--History.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books ; [Harrisburg] : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2003.
- Summary:
- Eckley, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was a typical company mining town, or "patch, " which was in existence from 1854 to 1969. Coal companies constructed and operated villages, such as Eckley, for their workers, providing housing, stores, churches, and schools--and by extension making the workers wholly dependent on the company. The workers were originally English, Welsh, and German, and later in the century they were joined by immigrants from Ireland and southern and eastern Europe, forming an ethnically diverse community. The site interprets the day-to-day life of the workers and their families.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 48).
- ISBN:
- 0811727416
- OCLC:
- 50591222
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