Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

Lackawanna Coal Mine is a museum and retired coal mine that is located in McDade Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1903.^[1]

Scranton, Pennsylvania and Lackawanna County is part of the northern field of the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Europeans immigrated to the area to work in the mines.^[2][3]

In 1903, the Continental Coal Company opened the Lackawanna Coal Mine.^[1]

After operating for more than half a century, this mine was closed in 1966 and lay abandoned until 1978. That year, the mine was converted to a museum, supported by $2.5 million in U.S. federal government funding. Restoration included the removal of debris, the laying of track to enable a mine car to carry visitors into the mine, the installation of electricity for lights, and the reinforcement of the mine's shafts with steel buttresses to improve safety prior to the museum's opening in 1985.^[4][5]

In 1987, Lackawanna County received a $300,000 state grant to build a 2,500-square-foot (230 m²) museum building to house exhibits and artifacts. The addition is called the Shifting Shanty, a name used to describe the area where miners showered after a shift.^[6]

Adjacent to the mine tour is the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum with exhibits on Northeastern Pennsylvania's mining and industrial history. The museum is run by Lackawanna County.^[5]

The purpose of the mine is to give visitors a feeling for what it was like to work in an underground mine.^[4] The tours are led by former miners, or children of miners.^[4]

Visitors board a mine car and descend the #190 slope, about 250 ft (76 m) below ground, into the Clark Vein of coal. The tour proceeds, on foot, through several twisting veins of the abandoned mine.^[4]

خلال الجولة، يشرح المرشدون السياحيون جوانب مختلفة من صناعة تعدين الفحم الحجري في ولاية بنسلفانيا، بما في ذلك ملف رئيس قسم مكافحة الحرائق ، وأبواب التهوية ودورها في التهوية، وعمال الأبواب، ووسيلة الخروج الثانية من المنجم، ومتجر الشركة . ^{[ 7 ]} تتراوح درجات الحرارة داخل المنجم بين 10 و12 درجة مئوية (50-54 درجة فهرنهايت ) .  

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