Description
Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton specializes in the folk, labor, and culture of coal mining and related industries in eastern Pennsylvania. The museum presentations objects and pictures of the on a regular basis lifetime of coal miners and their families, including exhibits of household furnishings, spiritual artifacts, and work implements and machinery. Nearby Scranton Iron Furnaces, four stone blast furnace stacks built between 1848 and 1857 for the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, commemorate an trade that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded because of it. Features a tour of the museum and the furnaces.