Mine Scenery / Jeanesville Bank

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2/2/2004

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Jeanesville Coalbank viewed from the parking lot of the Giant supermarket in Hazleton, PA. April, 2000.

It would be somehow fitting if one of these rockpiles could be named to commemorate the old coal capitalists.

 

 
The Jeanesville coalbank looking north from nearby the small Jeanesville Methodist Church and cemetery. This pile of mine waste dates from the 1850s. It is one (along with the one at Beaver Brook) of the most striking features on the Spring Mountain plateau. It dominates the landscape and can be seen from just about anywhere in the locale. Probably one of the largest such singular piles in the Anthracite Region, it rose well over 200 feet above its base before its top third was removed in the 1950s. As seen from the south after the snows in February, 2003. Same viewpoint as the picture at left on the road between Tresckow and Jeanesville.

 

A view looking toward the southeast from Nannygoat Hill in Hazleton, PA.