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Mine Scenery / Beaver Brook Breakersfp2/2/2004 |
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| The Beaver Brook, PA coalbank looking toward the southeast from off Rte. 309 in June, 2000. The large old burned-down Beaver Brook breaker was located to the left of the picture where some old timbers can still be seen projecting from the rubble. |
Site of the old Beaver Brook breaker looking northeast toward Jeanesville. A flat section of land in the middle distance locates the old main road between Tamaqua, PA and Hazleton. That road passed through McAdoo (Pleasant Hill), Audenreid, Yorktown, Beaver Brook, and then went on on to Hazleton. Grandfather Ernö Marko worked at this mine slope until he died in 1924. |
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| Undated (but early) picture of the Beaver Brook, PA mine works. The small village of Beaver Brook is located behind the coalbanks and breaker. One of the taller local breakers, it remained in operation through part of the 1940s. It burned down sometime in the 1950s. PA Rte. 309 now occupies the dirt road seen in the foreground. The old Tamaqua - Hazleton pike passed behind and to the left of the structure. | After the large, earlier Beaver Brook breaker burned down, it was replaced with this shabby. more or less modern sheet iron faced structure; A much smaller operation than the original works, here it's in its last stages of dilapidation. |