Old faithful: The geyser erupts from a hole in a drainage pipe that directs storm water and mine water from the mountain, under local streets and into the the nearby Mahanoy Creek .. You may have another name for that body of local water.
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The top ten past coal region restaurants that are still missed today
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According to the REPUBLICAN, curious onlookers even drove right onto the golf course as they tried to get a look at the burned down Country Club structure… new golf balls were even stolen.. It was quickly decided to rebuild! By October 1970, Draco Development created a new structure.. and from that point a new history..
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These are the big three.. but they don’t end there.. There are countless properties like these..
So what do we do?
Where do we go from here?
Are these eyesores just going to stay where they are? Remain as they were..? relics of a time gone, and no changes coming to change then, reestablish them, or raze them?
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In the case of the Ashland PA Christmas tree, perhaps we can look to that tree as a good thing.. after all it could be worse!
On December 3, 1986, fierce winds that rolled through the area actually blew down the town Christmas tree. One hundred of the light globes got damaged as well.
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This day, Halloween, is when the ‘veil’ is lifted from our world.. where the here and there separation is the thinnest of all.. So no better time that All Hallow’s Eve to showcase some interesting horror and macabre events from coal region past..
Namely at the No. 4 Jeddo Mine near Hazleton, PA..
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