Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide

Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces

Harold W. Aurand, 2002. In this guidebook, the author condenses his vast knowledge of anthracite history in an overview of the people, labor, and culture of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania and follows with tours of the Anthracite Heritage Museum, highlighting its exhibits of objects and photographs reflecting the everyday life of coal miners and their families, and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, which memorializes an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) 48 pp., 6 x 9, photos, maps. paperback

In this guidebook, the author condenses his vast knowledge of anthracite history in an overview of the people, labor, and culture of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania and follows with tours of the Anthracite Heritage Museum, highlighting its exhibits of objects and photographs reflecting the everyday life of coal miners and their families, and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, which memorializes an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it.

A guide to the museum that explores the lives and labors of the people of Pennsylvania's hard coal region and the iron furnaces that relied on anthracite to roll the rails of the nation.