Does anyone have a picture of Eagle Hill Colliery that was in Blythe Township, Schuylkill County?
Thanks.
Ed

hey, i work for reading anthracite so i can get a photo of it for ya

chris

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Get out! I was born in Pottsville and lived in Cumbola. Eagle Hill is where a lot of my ancestors worked. I tried the Schuylkill County Historical Society and they charged me $20.00 for a real bad copy of the colliery. My great-grandfather owned a store in Cumbola where the miners bought their groceries from. Somewhere there is a book that had the miners names and what they bought and owed. I'm still trying to find it. Are you the same Chris that built the train? Also, do you know if Reading Anthracite is going to do anything with the miners records that Frank Blase was working on? I'm very interested in the history of mining in the Schuylkill County and also in genealogy ( especially that of the miners) Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!

Eddie

hey, yea, same chris. have you seen our website, since you are a coal boy? im going to move this discussion over to the mining forum and off the photo forum until i can get a photo up for you.

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Yeah, cool site you guys got here. I'm gonna take a look around to see what you have here. Is anyone on here from the Pottsville area?

so anyways, reading has a whole bunch of photos. i spent a day browsing them but dont remember hardly everything that was there. i can check that out next time im down there. im not sure what they are going to do with the records frank was working on. not sure how much help i can get you on genealogy but i can get you pics.

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Sounds good. In a few weeks we're going to be cleaning out an old garage of my grandfather's. He bought it from a colliery in Ashland, dismantled it and took it to Cumbola for a garage. Hopefully there's some old mining tools still left in there.

thats pretty cool. i know a guy who did the same thing. what did you want to know about the mine train i built? i sent you an email about it about 15 mins ago

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I was wondering where you got the idea for the coal cars from. They are what caught my eye. I have an old O gauge Lionel set that was my Mom's from years ago and am trying to find cars and locomotives that are from the anthracite coal region. Nice job on the train.

posted a pic in the coal photos section

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