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| The Audenreid
Stripping at #4. It used to be called #4, the Glen Alden Coal Company's
coal works, #4 slope. The breaker and slope have been gone since the 1960s.
Presently (August, 2003) it's a strip mine. It took part of Audenreid
and the five "Halfway Houses", with it. Now there's a big puddle
where the Halfway Houses used to be, 200 feet lower down. Strip mining
began in earnest in the early decades of the twentieth century after the
steamshovel was perfected. It led to the uprooting and destruction of
many square miles in the Region. View is directly west from a point 20
feet off Rte. 309 in the half mile between McAdoo and Audenreid, PA. |
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| #4 Stripping, January, 2003 looking northwest toward the
west end of Audenreid. This is approximately where the Honeybrook breaker
and the later Glen Alden breaker used to be. |
Northern side of #4 Stripping at Audenreid's
edge. |
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Same area, January, 2002, with a view of several draglines.
When Audenreid was a deep mining town with a slope mine and breaker,
this was nearly level ground with a substantial number of homes and
streets to the right of the picture. |
