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Coal Mining, Mine Fires, & The Molly Maguires

The Anthracite History Journal
courtesy of www.minecountry.com

USA Cities On-line's page for Byrnesville
(another Columbia County town lost to the mine fire)

Mike Reilly's Remembering Byrnesville

A Brief History of the Centralia Mine Fire
courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Photos of Centralia
courtesy of OffRoaders On-Line

Centralia Gallery
courtesy of Exploring and Modern Ruins

Centralia Pennsylvania - The Mine Fire

Coal Region Home Page
a collection of nostalgia and regionalisms
from the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania

A Tour of Famous Molly Maguire Sites
courtesy of Steve Heffner

Information on the American Coal Industry
courtesy of Ohio State University's Department of History

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
book available from Oxford University Press

Mine Country - Anthracite Coal Region History
home of www.minecountry.com

Ethic Lines Divided Coal Fields
Rough Conditions Existed In Coal Fields
Undercover Agent Infiltrated Mollies
John Hower's articles on the Mollies

Memory of the Molly Maguires Kept Alive
courtesy of The Coalcracker

Molly Maguires
lyrics to a Irish folk ballad by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter
courtesy of King Laoghaire

The Molly Maguires
Peter A. Weisman's Page

The Molly Maguires
courtesy of Ben Philips

Stories from the Archives of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
 by Cleveland Moffett,  McClures's Magazine, 1894.

courtesy of Ohio State University's Department of History

 

page date: 11/03/08
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