POTTSVILLE – When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it ...
They called it Furnace Island, and with good reason. The narrow tract along Route 61, across from the former Mady Car Wash, was home to iron furnaces beginning in the early 1800s. Indeed, even before ...