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Mine Scenery / Audenreid-McAdoo-Hazletonsfp2/2/2004 |
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Note: The photographs on this page were indirectly
obtained from the contributor, unknown to me, who later supplied these
and many more to the Hazleton based Panorama Magazine's publication,
Ties to the Past, dated March 28, 2003. A much larger selection
of similar scenes is available from that
enterprise.
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| The McAdoo, PA Lehigh Valley Railroad passenger and freight stations. Located between E. Garfield and E. Taylor Streets, the freight station was demolished after 1960 or thereabouts. Around that time the passenger station, unused from the 1930s, was moved a short distance away to serve as a residence. | Audenreid, PA, Lehigh Valley RR passenger station. In those days passenger service extended even to the smallest coal region towns. |
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| View of picture above, right, looking west from Yorktown | This structure may ... or may not be the Spring Brook Washery. The Spring Brook slope was located a little east and south of Audenreid, closer to Yorktown. |
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| The small patchtown of Jeanesville, PA was a center of coal mining and railroading heavy industry from the mid-1800s through the first decades of the 20th century. Locomotives were manufactured in this foundry. The site is a barren waste today (2004). |
The Jere Woodring hardware store building is visible at the left side of the picture. It was more than an ordinary hardware emporium, having attributes of a full scale department store. The place was a magnet for kids up until almost the 1960s. Every Christmas Season the store had a wonderfully enticing display of the latest Lionel and American Flyer electric trains in the display windows. Note the west front of the elegant Lehigh Valley RR passenger station at right, to be demolished then some 45 years henceforward. The city of Hazleton has managed to raze a large number of its architecturally interesting old public and commercial buildings. |