Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
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Mahanoy City is a borough located 38 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre and 13 miles southwest of Hazleton, in northern Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Coal Region of Pe
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, October 2009
St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in 2007
Breaker boys at dinner hour, Maple Hill Colliery, Mahanoy City, PA in 1908
Mahanoy City's Reading Railroad station abandoned platform in October 2025
St. Nicholas Breaker
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St. Nicholas Breaker was a historic coal breaker in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
…and shipping of coal, although the demand for it has steadily declined since its peak in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1930 the St. Nicholas Breaker was built and went into operation in 1932. A controlled explosion destroyed the breaker in March 2018. In 1948, Mahanoy City became the first municipality…
A mountaintop strip mine operates from the top and rear of the mountain