Ebervale, Pennsylvania - A Luzerne County "Patch" Town
Ebervale Coal Co. was mining Mammoth vein coal by 1864. Later they opened No. 2 and No. 3 mines. There were also No. 1 and No. 2 company housing developments. In October 1872 the Ebervale breaker burned and had to be rebuilt. In February 1885, a fire broke out in Ebervale No. 2 slope and the fire spread up the slope to the breaker. It was thought that a careless miner changing his cap wick started the 1885 fire. The fire did not consume the breaker this time. Ebervale mine was flooded by neighboring Harleigh mine because an "outlaw" gangway had been driven that connected the two mines. This caused both mines to close. State mine reports noted, "The Ebervale employees have failed to get employment elsewhere this winter, and if it was not for the-charity among the employes of this district, they would have suffered the pangs of hunger. In 1891 the five mile long Jeddo Tunnel was driven to drain these and other area mines. G.B. Markle and Co. became the operator of the newly dewatered Ebervale Colliery. In 1903 Markle opened and additional portal, No. 4, and the Ebervale mines were electrified in 1904. G.B. Markle Co. also later opened mining into the Primrose Vein. Primrose vein mining was exhausted on November 17, 1948, but Mammoth and Wharton vein mining continued later.
From 1894 to 1898 a New Ebervale Coal Co. existed for the purpose of "washing the culm from banks at Ebervale."
