Pine Knot Colliery

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The remains of Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's Pine Knot Colliery can still be found (as of 2024) in Cass Township of Schuylkill County. The mine operated from 1902 until 1933.

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A few of the remaining Pine Knot Colliery structures. The high windows on the building on the right could indicate that it was once a bath house. The red brick building on the left was once the boiler house (power house).

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Other small out buildings probably left over from Pine Knot Colliery.

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Pine Knot Colliery featured two shafts. This structure was associated with Shaft No. 2, which wasn't completed until 1909. The breaker cleaned coal from both shafts, and also for Philadelphia and Reading's nearby Glendower Colliery after its own breaker closed.

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Detail of the textures and colors of the board-and-batten Supply House, although others have identified this as a train station. Mine maps show the strutcure in the middle as being the mine's stables, but it certainly doesn't look like one.

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The houses on the other side of the street are pure Coal Region.

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And down the creek anthracite coal mining goes on into the 21st Century.