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1834

From 1834 until the end of the Civil War, the valley’s anthracite headed south to Baltimore and Philadelphia on an ever-increasing series of local and regional canals, often interconnected with some of the first railroads constructed in the Mid- Atlantic region.

1902

In 1902, the United Mine Workers - 140,000 strong - began the “Great Strike,” which lasted for nine months and was finally settled with the assistance of President Theodore Roosevelt.

1920

By the 1920’s consumers gradually switched from coal to oil, gas and electricity.

1936

The river rose to 40.9 feet, 18.9 feet above flood stage, and four feet above the levees that were built after the flood of 1936, which crested at 33 feet.

1959

Underground mining for anthracite essentially stopped forever on January 22, 1959.

2004

In 2004, total anthracite production in Northeastern Pennsylvania had declined to just 1.7 million tons.

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